Re: Shared apt archives

2007-05-30 Thread Andy Smith
Hi Chaim, On Mon, May 28, 2007 at 11:24:02AM +0300, Chaim Keren Tzion wrote: > I have several debian installations and use a lot of bandwidth when doing > apt-get updates etc. Would it break anything if I share > the /var/cache/apt/archives/ directory between the machines? I have ~50 debian and

Re: Shared apt archives

2007-05-28 Thread Ron Johnson
On 05/28/07 10:39, Felipe Sateler wrote: Ron Johnson wrote: So, run apt-proxy on N-1 "peers" and that's that. Actually, apt-proxy would run in only 1 of the peers. The other N-1 would have to be configured to connect to it. Ah, ok. Thanks for the clarification. -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jeffers

Re: Shared apt archives

2007-05-28 Thread Felipe Sateler
Ron Johnson wrote: > So, run apt-proxy on N-1 "peers" and that's that. Actually, apt-proxy would run in only 1 of the peers. The other N-1 would have to be configured to connect to it. -- Felipe Sateler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Troub

Re: Shared apt archives

2007-05-28 Thread Ron Johnson
On 05/28/07 06:03, Roby wrote: [snip] apt-proxy looks interesting too, although in my case the machines are all peers - no local network server. *Unix* does not have the concept of "peer" or "server" or "client". It's just a matter of which app you run on which machine. So, run apt-proxy o

Re: Shared apt archives

2007-05-28 Thread Michael G. Hansen
Roby wrote: > After upgrading my first machine, I copy /var/cache/apt/archives/*.deb > to the second and then apt-get update followed by apt-get dist-upgrade. > I continue the process for the remaining boxen. This works fine. > > apt-proxy looks interesting too, although in my case the machines

Re: Shared apt archives

2007-05-28 Thread Roby
Chaim Keren Tzion wrote: > Hi, > > I have several debian installations and use a lot of bandwidth when doing > apt-get updates etc. Would it break anything if I share > the /var/cache/apt/archives/ directory between the machines? > > I particularly want to do this on a vserver machine that I run

Re: Shared apt archives

2007-05-28 Thread Liam O'Toole
On Mon, 28 May 2007 11:24:02 +0300 Chaim Keren Tzion <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > I have several debian installations and use a lot of bandwidth when > doing apt-get updates etc. Would it break anything if I share > the /var/cache/apt/archives/ directory between the machines? > > I part

Shared apt archives

2007-05-28 Thread Chaim Keren Tzion
Hi, I have several debian installations and use a lot of bandwidth when doing apt-get updates etc. Would it break anything if I share the /var/cache/apt/archives/ directory between the machines? I particularly want to do this on a vserver machine that I run. It just seems like a waste to downl