This one time, at band camp, Egor Tur said: > Hi Folks! > How write the ssh method in sources.list correctly? > Thanx.
I did this once for boxes on my LAN, but it won't work for public mirrors, because it relies on having matching passphrase-less keypairs for root. Make a key for root, don't passphrase it. Copy it to the other box. Set up /etc/hosts appropriately on both boxes, i.e: 192.168.1.2 MirrorBox 192.168.1.3 OtherBox and then put deb ssh://MirrorBox/mirrors/debian/ unstable main non-free contrib deb ssh://MirrorBox/mirrors/debian/ unstable/non-US main contrib non-free in your sources.list. You'll have to use a tool like apt-move (or rsync, etc.) to set up the mirror intitally on MirrorBox, though. It's nice to do, if you don't have any other services (ftp, http) running on MirrorBox, and you want to save download time, but the overhead from ssh encryption slows things down a little, and as it only works on a LAN (or at any rate, between 2 boxes that you have root on), it might actually be faster to set up MirrorBox to serve http or ftp, and then firewall appropriately. HTH, Steve -- <Flav> Win 98 Psychic edition: We'll tell you where you're going tomorrow
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