Re: Obsessed with a clean system
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On Thu, 12 Aug 2004, Kirk Strauser wrote:
> I cheated on my mirror: I installed a Squid server and pointed apt at that
> proxy. That way, there's no penalty of downloading more packages than
> needed, but additional hosts benefit from the packages already downloaded
> by earlier hosts.
Well yeah, if you have infinite disk space to devote to your cache. :)
This isn't a mirror. I do this (well actually I have a squid server for
general use, but I point apt at it too), and it's handy when you're
updating several machines at once, particularly if they're on the same
version (which of course none of them are anymore; unstable/ppc,
unstable/i386 and testing/i386 - bah, well at least the non-arch-dependent
packages get shared between unstable/ppc and unstable/i386), but it's not
a mirror. A mirror stores all the files. Like how when you look in a
non-metaphorical mirror made of glass, it reflects all your face at once,
not just the part that somebody else has already looked at. :)
Also, things cycle out of the cache. They expire, or you run out of cache
space and Squid wisely deletes cache objects. It's good, but a mirror is
better.
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