On 30 April 2014 18:46, Trent W. Buck <[email protected]> wrote: > Toby Corkindale <[email protected]> writes: > >> Hi, >> Linux distros using the apt package management system tend to cache >> downloaded packages in /var/cache/apt/archives/ >> >> If you have many very similar machines set up, then you'll almost >> certainly have a HTTP proxy cache setup for them to retrieve packages >> through, to reduce huge duplication of downloads. >> >> This essentially obsoletes the /var/cache/apt/archives, though. And >> when you're running dozens of virtual machines, it'd be nice to avoid >> storing all these duplicate files. >> >> What's the right way to disable it? >> I see I can adjust the max size and age via the >> APT::Archives::Max{Age,Size} parameters, but what about just turning >> it off altogether? > > PS: if you use NFS instead of HTTP (thus, file: in sources.list), > it won't cache locally.
I'm not sure how that helps, unless I'm maintaining an actual debian mirror locally? (As opposed to just caching the much smaller subset of files that my servers use) _______________________________________________ luv-main mailing list [email protected] http://lists.luv.asn.au/listinfo/luv-main
