Re: How to share the apt cache
On Thu, Jun 15, 2006 at 10:02:57AM -0300, Jorge Peixoto de Morais Neto wrote:
> What is the "correct" way to share the apt cache? I think we should keep
> /var/cache/apt/archives in the server and mount it with nfs in the other
> computers. But I'm not shure this is the "correct" way; I don't know
> enough about the behaviour of apt to be sure that this won't bring an
> obscure problem. What should I do?
nfs would work if you wanted to trust that.
Rather than focussing on sharing the directory you might be better
off instead setting up an installation of 'apt-proxy'. Install
that on one machine and then update all other machines to fetch
their packages via it.
It will act as a proxy + cache and avoid you downloading the
same packages from the internet more than once...
Steve
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