-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, 12 Aug 2004, Kirk Strauser wrote:
> I cheated on my mirror: I installed a Squid server and pointed apt at that > proxy. That way, there's no penalty of downloading more packages than > needed, but additional hosts benefit from the packages already downloaded > by earlier hosts. Well yeah, if you have infinite disk space to devote to your cache. :) This isn't a mirror. I do this (well actually I have a squid server for general use, but I point apt at it too), and it's handy when you're updating several machines at once, particularly if they're on the same version (which of course none of them are anymore; unstable/ppc, unstable/i386 and testing/i386 - bah, well at least the non-arch-dependent packages get shared between unstable/ppc and unstable/i386), but it's not a mirror. A mirror stores all the files. Like how when you look in a non-metaphorical mirror made of glass, it reflects all your face at once, not just the part that somebody else has already looked at. :) Also, things cycle out of the cache. They expire, or you run out of cache space and Squid wisely deletes cache objects. It's good, but a mirror is better. - -- GnuPG public key available from http://ca.geocities.com/redvision.geo/gnupg_key.html -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.5 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFBHD0IMqUhaD+LmFcRAhuOAJwIr2wKdFW17oeC+GN15RZ0t9uQXQCfa+6Y lyLNvj44fqE+uzKfJkqhyIE= =lLol -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
