Re: sources.list

[Rolf Kutz <kutz@gmx.de>]

Duane Powers (duane@uberLAN.net) wrote:

> I have a question - I have a dozen boxen that I am maintaining, all with 
> Debian ( almost all potato - one woody) I would like to save bandwidth 
> and centralize administration by utilizing one of the boxes as a apt-get 
> source. then I can apt-get update ; apt-get dist-upgrade ; done, on one 
> box, and save all the .deb's then use those .deb's for the other boxen 
> without actually mirroring the whole debian site.

Install a Proxy-Server (squid f.e.) and put 

Acquire::http::Proxy "http://your.proxy.server:port";;

in your /etc/apt/apt.conf

Works fine with me.

cu, Rolf