[plug] how to add a package cache for debian/ubuntu

[Adrian Chadd]

* NFS sharing works fine, but disable the auto-trimming or your cache
  will stay at ~ 100 meg;
* there's an apt-cache of some sort out there!
* configure all the servers to use the same HTTP repository and point
  them all through Squid!




Adrian
(Who has done 1 and 3..)

On Tue, Jul 01, 2008, Mike Holland wrote:
> good morning, I was wondering:
> How do you arrange for apt-get to look in a local directory for .deb 
> files, to reduce downloads?
>   Two examples:
> - updating when another machine on the LAN has already updated, and has 
> most of the /deb files we need in its /var/cache/apt/archives
> - I want to install mythbuntu-desktop, and have an ISO of the mythbuntu 
> distro.
> 
> I found that just copying all the .debs from one machine to another's 
> /var/cache/apt/archives seems to work, but whats the proper way?
> 
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