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On Tue, 10 Feb 2004 14:47:35 -0600 "Jacob S." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Have you tried apt-proxy? If so, what prompted you to try the exported directory instead? My understanding of apt-proxy was that it only downloaded the needed packages as they were requested and then kept a cache so other computers on the same network could use them without having to wait for them to download from the nearest mirror again.
Thanks, Jacob
i've very less experience with apt-proxy. but AFAIK apt-proxy requires a setup to be made in the structure of the debian tree i.e. something like main contrib non-US non-free ( tell me if i'm wrong). where as reutilizing the packages stored in the archives folder doesnot have any such tree structure.. I'm not sure. I just copy the archives folder as said in my previous mail. I'm just concerned of using the archives folder over NFS with rw permission.
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Sharing/copying /var/cache/apt/archives is possible. But how to make apt see all those new packages? apt-get update does this by fetching package lists from the internet. In your present solution you do apt-get update on both machines and that's slow. I see two solutions for this.
#1 hack: If you use the same sources.list on both machines copy package lists between the machines along with the debs. It should be in /var/cache/apt/pkgcache and var/cache/apt/srcpkgcache. But I didn't ever try this. There could be more files that you need sync.
#2 use apt-proxy. It caches both debs and package lists. apt-get update is then less painful because it downloads lists from the internet only on first use.
You're right that apt-proxy stores all downloaded packages in the same tree directory structure as debian archives use.
But there's no need to setup that manually. Apt-proxy builds/ fills/updates/deletes it all automatically. You just need to properly configure it. You can check my config at http://abu.ath.cx if you're interested.
-- Jan Suchy
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