On Monday, 30.10.2006 at 13:18 -0700, edwardsa wrote: > Dave Ewart wrote: > >On Monday, 30.10.2006 at 11:06 -0700, edwardsa wrote: > > > > > >>I have some ubuntu machines living inside of a debian firewall machine > >>that point to an apt-cacher archive on that machine. It looks to me > >>that I could have the same archive serve both distributions. This > >>would be useful because I have two other debian machines on the same > >>network. It looks as though I could put all of the debian debs in the > >>import directory and run the perl script to put them in the packages > >>directory. Am I missing anything? > >> > > > >I don't see any reason why you can't use apt-cacher to cache access to > >the Ubuntu repositories as well as the Debian repositories; this should > >work fine, so long as you configure the appropriate upstream > >respositories for each. > > > >I might be mistaken, but it sounds like you're also suggesting trying to > >*mix* Debian and Ubuntu packages: don't do this! (If that's not what > >you meant, then ignore this remark, of course) > > > >Dave. > > > > > Thanks for the response. I agree that mixing ubuntu and debian packages > would be a disaster. I just want one place > to store debians for both distributions, pointing each machine to the > same apt-cacher archive and then to their respective external repositories. Yeah, then that should work fine. I've used apt-proxy in the past and had it serve both i386 and amd64 machines, which used different repositories: that's not fundamentally any different to what you're suggesting. Dave. -- Please don't CC me on list messages! ... Dave Ewart - davee@sungate.co.uk - jabber: davee@jabber.org All email from me is now digitally signed, key from http://www.sungate.co.uk/ Fingerprint: AEC5 9360 0A35 7F66 66E9 82E4 9E10 6769 CD28 DA92
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