Re: Complete local mirror.

[Orion <orion@tribble.dyndns.org>]

Adam Scriven said:
> At 13:20 2000/08/15 -0600, you wrote:
> >This is so not true. If you installed all your machines, without using any
> >sort of shared local cache it would still produce less bandwidth than 1
> >week of a full local mirror. You realize it takes about 200meg/day to keep
> >up with our archive?
> 
> Ok, fair enough.  I don't need a complete mirror anyway, just the x86 
> stuff, and just for stable.
> 
> >Shared APT, squid, etc are all more banddith efficient solutions.
> 
> How would I implement shared apt?  That sounds like what I'd like to do, 
> but I've never even heard of it.

What I do is have /var/cache/apt/archives as an NFS share from one
machine, and let all my other machines (2 others) mount it as their own
/var/cache/apt/archives/ . This is working nicely for me. I haven't
tried running apt at the same time on 2 machines, however...


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