Re: Centralizing apt-get downloads
On Tue, 18 Sep 2001, Dave Sherohman wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 18, 2001 at 11:17:19AM -0400, Andrew Perrin wrote:
> > My question is this: effectively, each time they upgrade, I'm downloading
> > three copies of each package separately. Is there a relatively easy way to
> > archive the files locally and have the two boxen behind the ipmasq'ed
> > computer just get their updates from it?
>
> Sure. Here are three:
>
> - Check out the apt-move package if you want to build your own
> partial mirror of the official archives
>
> - Roll your own archive using dpkg-scanpackages if you don't want
> updates to come down automatically
>
> - Use NFS to export /var/cache/apt to all machines - apt-get update
> will run separately on each box, but when it comes time to install
> packages, they're already in /var/cache/apt/archives, so they won't
> be re-downloaded
Do you know how to to build the Release files? I cannot do a fresh
install from my partial mirror because debootstrap barfs on
dist/sid/main/Release.
Lindsay
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