Re: apt-cacher
On Wed, 8 Jun 2005 17:09:22 -0400
Hendrik Boom <hendrik@pooq.com> 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?
Yes. Though I haven't looked closely at the dependencies for apt-cacher
- so it may want to download a couple extra packages with apt-cacher.
Once the dependencies are in place though, you should be good to go.
> 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?
Yes, this works perfectly in my experience of using apt-cacher for over
a year now. (I don't remember exactly how long I've been using it now.)
Remember that apt-get doesn't start processing a new package until it is
fully downloaded - and it gets the new package from apt-cacher - so
apt-cacher will be available until all packages are downloaded and ready
to be processed.
HTH,
Jacob
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