[plug] APT-Proxy/Debian package sharing

[Brad Campbell]

Peter Wright wrote:
> 
> On Tue, Jan 25, 2000 at 09:20:20AM +0000, Christian wrote:
> > Peter Wright wrote:
> > > 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?
> >
> > I suppose it could work but it relies on the files not being flushed
> > from the cache in between being used.  For example, I upgrade one
> > machine with some new unstable packages -- I'll probably want to use
> > that for a couple of days or so at least to make sure that they don't
> > break anything.  In between that time squid may very well flush them
> > from the cache. :(

Better still, just install cern-httpd on the machine you use to download
them and alter your other sources files to point to that box..
I have a machine here with both slink .iso files mounted over loopback
and cern-httpd installed serving all the files to my other machines..
Or, even easier, just use the ftp method in apt and point it at the
required dir..


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