On Thu, 2008-10-02 at 01:31 +0900, Osamu Aoki wrote: > I get 100mbit connection at home via optical connetion these days so > bandwidth > is not the point. > > It is about saving load to the remote host (a shared resources) which > provide data to everyone. If you have many hosts at home, running cache > service for package deb fies are good idea. > > > > Use proxy server such as squid. Then it saves only ones you downloaded. > > > > > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proxy_server > > > > > In what way would that help? I suspect both apt-move and mirror use > > incremental updates. That way the bandwith requirements will not be that > > much. > > apt-move create local package mirror with packages downloaded to reduce > duplicate download. It seems good but I never bothered. > > apt-mirror seems to make subset mirror of archive ... which needs to > require too much attention for casual user like me because it relied on > package name etc. > > proxy server just hold all remote data requests made via it. If it is > configured by http reuest time out in right way, you get good copies of > archive without specific package name requirement. I used to use it > while not caching noon deb files. I used to cache just deb files. > Simple policy is the key. > > I am running single machine these days so I do not do this. > > Osamu >
Thanks a lot for your additional explanation! -- Regards, Aniruddha -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
