[plug] apt-cacher

[Adrian Chadd]

On Tue, Oct 03, 2006, Patrick Coleman wrote:

> I did try the 'common NFS share' approach at one point, but I had a
> lot of trouble with locking (multiple computers on the network
> couldn't have aptitude or apt-get open at the same time). How did you
> get around that?

I'm only NFS exporting the apt cache, not the package databases.
I haven't had any real problem running concurrent apt-get's ..
(My background is FreeBSD and /usr/ports/distfiles was oft an NFS
share for much the same reason.)




Adrian