Re: Packages for offline repository

Colin Watson <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.debian.devel.project
Message-ID <[email protected]> 
On Wed, Oct 08, 2025 at 07:48:55PM -0400, jcfyrr wrote:
>•Terminal command to download (clone) the entire Debian package 
>repository (contrib, main, non-free-firmware, non-free) for an apt 
>compatible offline local repository of every Debian package. Only 
>including architectures AMD64, ARM64, and all (universal) to include 
>those only available as all.deb, as well as any other necessary files.
>
>•Terminal command to update the local repository without redownloading 
>everything.

debmirror can do this sort of thing.

>•What will the possible approximate size of the repository be  only 
>including AMD64, ARM64, and all (universal), as well as other necessary 
>files in the repository if needed.

https://salsa.debian.org/debian/debmirror/-/blob/master/mirror_size is 
an attempt to tabulate estimates for various combinations that people 
might want to mirror, which I update every six months.
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