Paul E Condon wrote:
On Tue, Feb 15, 2005 at 08:27:58PM -0500, Bill Marcum wrote:On Tue, Feb 15, 2005 at 10:56:16AM +0200, John Oxley wrote:I apologise if this has been covered before. I have searched the archives and have not found any docs to help me out. I am sysadmining a company with about 20 linux boxes, currently running RedHat 7.3. I am running Debian Sarge on my personal machine. What I want to do is turn my personal machine into a local mirror so when I go home at night, I do "apt-get update && apt-get upgrade" then in the morning I update the package lists from all the other machines.Try apt-move.I've been reading this with a view to solving a related problem. I use apt-proxy to keep a local cache of the stuff that I install on several machines, but apt-proxy is a special problem for the people trying to release Sarge. Can I use apt-move for a replacement of apt-proxy? Apt-proxy does its thing quite nicely under Woody without any attention from me. What I read about apt-move leads me to believe that I will have to actively manage the resulting local repository.
apt-move seems to require manual intervention to get it to do what you want. Out of curiousity, have you stuck with version 1.3 or are you using version 1.9 apt-proxy? I formerly had my proxy running on my web/mail/file/swiss army server (on Woody), but decided to move it to a workstation (running Sarge) since I only use it on my internal net. I did that back before apt-proxy got moved out of Sarge. I was a bit disappointed in that, but I understand that it still has quite a ways to go before it is fit for stable release (though I have not experienced any problems, except for the pipelining configuration issue). What I do now is periodically grab the latest apt-proxy out of Sid. Once the dependencies start changing (as Sarge nears release and Sid keeps moving) I will end up backporting. -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sanchez http://familiasanchez.net/~sanchezr
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