title: How do I use Artifactory to mirror linux distributions?
body: <p>I configured external yum and apt repositories for Artifactory, for CentOS, Debian and Ubuntu and it seems as working but Artifactory does not cache/mirror them in advance. It seems that the artifacts are cached the first time they are requested and I do want to be sure that I pre-cache them.</p>
  
  <p>I imagined that this would be done by replication option but somehow it seems that this option require an Artifactory server on the other side, which I obviously do not have as these are just public http mirrors, like:</p>
  
  <ul>
  <li><a href="http://mirror.bytemark.co.uk/centos/" rel="nofollow">http://mirror.bytemark.co.uk/centos/</a></li>
  <li><a href="http://ftp.uk.debian.org/debian/" rel="nofollow">http://ftp.uk.debian.org/debian/</a></li>
  <li><p><a href="http://mirror.bytemark.co.uk/ubuntu/" rel="nofollow">http://mirror.bytemark.co.uk/ubuntu/</a></p>
  
  <p>How do I perform the caching/mirroring?</p></li>
  </ul>