On Mon, Jul 26, 2010 at 2:37 PM, Ashish SHUKLA <[email protected]> wrote:
> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA512 > > Sagar Belure writes: > > On Mon, Jul 26, 2010 at 11:15 AM, Sagar Belure <[email protected] > >wrote: > > >> On Fri, Jul 23, 2010 at 7:42 PM, Ashish SHUKLA <[email protected] > >wrote: > >> > >>> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > >>> Hash: SHA512 > >>> > >>> Vivek Kapoor writes: > >>> > On 07/23/2010 06:32 PM, Sagar Belure <[email protected]> wrote: > >>> >> Please, bear with me, if I'm not able to properly present my > >>> requirement. > >>> >> > >>> >> There are some 32 and 64 bit ubuntu systems in same network. > >>> >> I want only one system(like, one 32 and one 64 bit systems) to be > >>> updated > >>> >> and upgraded on daily basis. > >>> >> And, rest of the systems, to fetch those updated packages before > they > >>> go > >>> >> online and check for new packages. > >>> > >>> > From what I have understood, you don't want every machine to download > >>> > from the Ubuntu repositories, but only one machine should do the > >>> > task. It'll handle 32bit and 64bit without any issues. Use one of the > >>> > following > >>> > >>> > apt-proxy, apt-cacher, apt-cacher-ng, approx > >>> > >>> > I started with apt-cacher and faced update issues in long term use, > so > >>> > I moved to approx and was happy with it, but newer version presented > a > >>> > bit difficulty in the sense that it didn't run its own daemon. So I > >>> > moved onto apt-cacher-ng which has been working well for quite some > >>> > time now. > >>> > >>> I also used apt-cacher in past and it worked but recent versions had > some > >>> issues, so I kept the old version pinned on my Debian box. > >>> > >>> I also tried pkg-cacher[1] because I needed to cache for 'yum' > >>> (fedora/centos) > >>> also and it worked great since it can cache both 'yum' and 'apt'. > >>> > >>> References: > >>> [1] http://gforge.opensource-sw.net/gf/project/pkg_cacher/frs/ > >>> > >>> HTH > >>> > >> > >> Thank you all for your responses. > >> I got options to look into and your views and experience is really > >> valuable. > >> > > > 'apt-cacher-ng' seems to fulfill my requirements. > > BTW, is it ,by any chance, possible to set up 'repository-cache' server > > combined for 32 as well as 64 bit systems. > > apt-cacher-ng uses /var/cache/apt/archives as repository, and is > obviously > > different for 32 and 64 bit systems. > > The file names of the downloaded packages have architecture mentioned in > them, > so you don't have to worry about 32-bit packages getting overwritten by > 64-bit > ones. And I used a single repository with apt-cacher and pkg-cacher. > Ok. By that, you mean, once I run 'sudo apt-get update ; sudo apt-get upgrade' on repository-cache server(Ubuntu 10.04 amd64 desktop), provided it has apt-cache-ng installed, will be able to fetch 32 bit debs too? Or wait How am I supposed to update repository-cache server? -- Thanks, Sagar Belure Security Analyst Secfence Technologies www.secfence.com _______________________________________________ Ilugd mailing list [email protected] http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd
