Re: cleaning up my local apt repository
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Roberto C. Sanchez wrote on 23.03.2005 19:01:
| You are going about this the hard way. Use apt-proxy. It is in Woody
| (the old version) and Sid (the new version). It allows you to specify
| which repositories you want to use, how many different versions of a
| package to maintain, how often to sweep for clean up, the maximum size
| of your repository and a number of other options. All you do is to
| have one machin run apt-proxy and then point your other machines to the
| proxy instead of the regular repository. It functions like any other
| proxy. If the file is locally available it provides it, otherwise it
| fetches it from the repository. In my case I have even pointed the
| proxy machine back at itself (i.e., my sources.list on the proxy machine
| points to localhost). Once the first machine is update, the others a
| very fast.
|
| -Roberto
Okay, you've convinced me =)
But can I tell apt-proxy that I already have some packages in path xyz
and let it clean up that directory without having to do an initial
download of stuff I already have?
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