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Re: Complete local mirror.



> > > Shared APT, squid, etc are all more banddith efficient solutions.

> Adam Scriven said:
> 
> > How would I implement shared apt?  That sounds like what I'd like to do, 
> > but I've never even heard of it.

Orion wrote:
 
> 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...

Simple and effective.

Try also apt-move to move all the downloaded packages from
/var/cache/apt/archives/ to a local `mirror' directory tree.  You
then then export that tree using a http or ftp server.

Peter



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