Re: Making new installations

["Lucas Albers" <albersl@cs.montana.edu>]

Vineet Kumar said:
> If you'll be running multiple debian machines at a site, I
> highly recommend apt-proxy.  Configure one machine as an apt
> proxy and point all of the other machines' sources.list at
> it.  Then you only download each package once, on demand
> (rather than creating a whole local mirror) and it's all
> very transparent.
yes,yes,yes.
this is innumerable cool and time-saving.
Fast too!
And saves bandwidth on the debian archives.
Let me count the ways I love the apt-cacher program, another apt proxy
program.



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--Luke CS Sysadmin, Montana State University-Bozeman