[plug] creating a repository

[Kev]

W.Kenworthy wrote:
> Try http-replicator.  Works a treat on gentoo (also works on lesser
> distros :), both for downloads via the build system, or manually as long
> as you set the proxy for the app, or environment.
> 
> Reccomended for the bandwidth hungry with multiple systems!
> 
> bunyip cisco-vpnclient # esearch replicator
> [ Results for search key : replicator ]
> [ Applications found : 1 ]
> 
> *  net-proxy/http-replicator
>       Latest version available: 3.0
>       Latest version installed: [ Not Installed ]
>       Size of downloaded files: 19 kB
>       Homepage:    http://gertjan.freezope.org/replicator/
>       Description: Proxy cache for Gentoo packages
>       License:     GPL-2
> 
> 
> 
> BillK
> 
> 
> 
> On Thu, 2006-04-06 at 18:00 +0800, Patrick Coleman wrote:
> 
>>On 4/6/06, Gavin Chester <sales at ecosolutions.com.au> wrote:
>>
>>>
>>>   >-----Original Message-----
>>>   >From: plug-bounces at plug.org.au [mailto:plug-bounces at plug.org.au]On
>>>   >Behalf Of Kev
>>>   >Sent: Thursday, 6 April 2006 15:18
>>>   >To: PLUG
>>>   >Subject: [plug] creating a repository
>>>   >
>>>   >
>>>   >Greetings PLUGgers (and other humanoids)
>>>   >
>>>   >Can someone perhaps point me at some guide or software or such-like so
>>>   >that I can create my own local repository.  My aim is to create a small
>>>   >repository on my local (home) network so that I only have to download
>>>   >software once, and then others here at home can install from my local
>>>   >repository.  I don't have any clue at this stage what makes a
>>>   >repository, or how one is structured, so I need beginners' stuff.
>>>   >
>>>
>>>AS far as I remember:
>>>
>>>Say, you're using yum, apt or whatever you'll find that the downloaded files
>>>are cached on your local drive in /var/cache-something.  You can simply
>>>never delete the files and headers from your cache and have all users point
>>>their updater-of-choice to that directory on your drive when they are
>>>configuring which repositories to use.
>>
>>I've tried both the methods mentioned here on my network, and I had
>>problems with sharing the /var/cache/apt/archives folder. It worked,
>>but when someone else had a copy of synaptic, aptitude, apt-get or
>>whatnot running my copy would throw strange errors (and vice-versa),
>>from memory because of locking issues. We then switched to apt-proxy,
>>which worked perfectly. It basically acts as a network cache for
>>debian packages, so you only ever download a package once over your
>>net connection, no matter how many client machines you have.
>>
>>Installation is simple, just apt-get install apt-proxy and change the
>>sources in the config file. Then change your clients
>>/etc/apt/source.list files to point to the proxy, run apt-get update
>>on the clients and you're away.
>>
>>The docs are very good - see man apt-proxy and man apt-proxy.conf.
>>
>>-Patrick
>>--
>>http://www.labyrinthdata.net.au

I had it in mind that a "repository" had more to it than just a 
directory full of .debs.  I use Synaptic _(because I need that level of 
simplicity)_ and I can't see how to install a .deb which is already on 
my system using Synaptic.  I figured that if I could just create a 
"repository", as different from a directory full of .debs, that I could 
simply add that to the sources.list in each machine in my network.  Am I 
barking up the wrong tree here?

Ta
Kev


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