[plug] apt-cacher

[William Kenworthy]

http-replicator has proven problem free - I use it on gentoo, but I
think it has a debian config available.  Ive tried some of the other
solutions (squid, NFS etc) and they suck big time - esp NFS with
multiple machines!

BillK

On Tue, 2006-10-03 at 15:12 +0800, Adrian Chadd wrote:
> 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
> 
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