Re: Sharing .deb files across network
On Sun, 20 Jan 2002 15:06:16 -0600, Ron Johnson said:
> Hi,
>
> I have billions and billions of file in /var/cache/apt/archives.
>
> Is there any way, without using NFS, to share them with the other
> machines in my LAN, so that I only need to download them (using
> "apt-get install|upgrade" on my main machine) once from a debian
> mirror.
>
> Then, when I do "apt-get install|upgrade" on my other machines,
> they would 1st look on my main machine, then go to the internet
> if needed.
>
> I looked at apt-proxy, but it looks like you must set up a
> distribution mirror, and I don't have the bandwidth for that.
- you make a mistake, apt-proxy don't need you set up a mirror,
it only caches any .deb that are requested via that proxy.
I use it on my LAN, but it only worked when I understood that it don't
use ftp but rsync, and servers are fewer (but reliable).
mose
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