On Wed, Jan 03, 2001 at 06:14:05PM -0500, Adam McKenna wrote: > On Wed, Jan 03, 2001 at 11:57:07PM +0100, Marco d'Itri wrote: > > Please don't encourage private mirrors! > > Debian itself encourages private mirrors. Personally, I'd rather just > download a new ISO every 3 months or so as new versions come out but the > cdimage.debian.org pages steer people heavily toward mirroring and producing > their own CD images with the debian-cd package.
I think you missed the point Marco d'Itri was talking about. Downloading CD images is not different from keeping a private mirror up to date. The private mirror even might save you some bandwidth. Also cdimage.debian.org suggests that you install from a public mirror, if you have the bandwidth you'd also require to keep a local mirror or download CD images. Debian currently contains much more packages than anybody would install. I doubt that even on "big" installations more than 50% of all debian packages would be installed. Debian includes additional tools (apt), that make accessing remote repositories easier than finding packages by hand in a local mirror. Thus a proxy would serve local machines much better than a local mirror or CD images. For a single host I'd suggest running "apt-get -d" overnight. Ingo -- 16 Hard coded constant for amount of room allowed for cache align and faster forwarding (tunable) -- seen in /usr/src/linux-2.2.14/net/TUNABLE