[plug] APT-Proxy/Debian package sharing

[Peter Wright]

On Tue, Jan 25, 2000 at 08:47:54AM +0000, Christian wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I'm trying to sort something out so that I can share a common archive of
> Debian packages among a handful of machines.
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> I tried Rusty's apt-proxy but couldn't seem to get it to work.
[ snip ]
> Anyway, if any one here can suggest a good way of achieving what I
> want to do (possibly a different distributed filesystem?) then
> please let me know.

My housemate achieves this with no problems (that I know of) using
squid. One machine runs squid and caches the files as they are
apt-got... the others will then get them from the proxy cache when
they run apt-get install/upgrade/whatever.

Is there any reason that this solution wouldn't work for you?

> Regards,
> 
> Christian.

Pete.
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