Bug#606826: upgrade-reports: release notes should warn about vital NFS mounts during upgrade

[Bill Allombert <Bill.Allombert@math.u-bordeaux1.fr>]

On Mon, Dec 13, 2010 at 11:22:26AM +0100, Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña wrote:
> > (I use NFS for apt, because my workstations have limited disk capacity,
> > and I have many of them, so I often download everything on one machine, and
> > then
> > remove lock, and use it on others machine to save Internet bandwidth).
> 
> I would suggest, as an alternative, to use 'apt-cacher-ng' instead. You
> install it in one system and then make the others use it as a proxy for apt
> downloads. That way you do not have to handle file locking issues.

I do not think apt-cacher-ng address this issue: apt-cacher-ng addresses the limited
bandwidth issue, but not the limited disk capacity issue.

apt-get will download package through apt-cacher-ng but still stores them in /var/cache/apt.

Cheers,
-- 
Bill. <ballombe@debian.org>

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