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Re: apt-cacher



On Wed, Jun 08, 2005 at 05:09:22PM -0400, Hendrik Boom wrote:
> Now that I'll be upgrading my lan's server to sarge, I plan also
> to install apt-cacher on it, so my other machines won't have to do
> as much long-haul net traffic.
> 
> Can I start the woody->sarge upgrade by updating, first,
> aptitude and perl (that seems to be conventional wisdom)
> then installing sarge's apt-cacher, and then pointing
> the sources.list to apt-cacher running on the very machine
> that is being upgraded to sarge?
> 
> In the future, when further updates take place, will apt-cacher
> know how to update itself while it's being used to download and
> cache its replacement?
> 

Since you are serving machines on a network, you really want apt-proxy.

-Roberto

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Roberto C. Sanchez
http://familiasanchez.net/~sanchezr

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