Re: Packages debian needs

["Jamin W. Collins" <jcollins@asgardsrealm.net>]

On Mon, May 19, 2003 at 10:01:34PM -0400, Kevin McKinley wrote:

> If you're thinking about a local network, it may be easier just to set
> up a local mirror of Debian and let local machines use it instead of a
> distant mirror.
> 
> It's really simple, and once made is relatively quick to update every
> day.

Or, simply setup a transparent squid caching proxy and configure your
sources.list to use HTTP.  Then each package will only be downloaded
once.

-- 
Jamin W. Collins

This is the typical unix way of doing things: you string together lots
of very specific tools to accomplish larger tasks. -- Vineet Kumar