[SLUG] deb caching software for use on LANs that doesn't suck?
Good morning all, For quite some time I've tried apt-cacher and settled on apt-proxy for a few years, for caching deb packages on a LAN to reduce internet bandwidth usage and to speed up apt-get processes. Since apt-proxy has moved to using the twisted framework, I've found that apt-proxy's suckiness ranges from "oh I'm going to take 6 hours to complete your apt-get dist-upgrade because I'm busy doing something in the background" to "I don't know what to do so I'll throw you a random HTTP error", which annoys me to no end. apt-cacher is no better, as it munges each debs it downloads with some HTTP headers. So, has anyone come across something like apt-proxy or apt-cacher, but it doesn't suck? (Yes I know it sounds like a big ask) :) Regards, Bill -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] deb caching software for use on LANs that doesn't suck?
On Wed, May 09, 2007 at 09:49:52 +1000, Billy Kwong wrote: > So, has anyone come across something like apt-proxy or apt-cacher, but it > doesn't suck? (Yes I know it sounds like a big ask) :) Have you had a look at apt-mirror? It differs from apt-proxy or apt-cacher in that you create a mirror of a remote repository all at once rather than caching packages you download, so it can take a while to get setup, but then it's simple to keep up to date - just run it from cron once or twice a day. dapper + edgy + feisty, main + retricted + universe + multiverse, including updates, backports and security is 51GB in total. If you want a quick way to fill your mirror, I have a full mirror of the three latest Ubuntu distros. Bring a hard drive to either St Leonards (work, but not this week) or Lindfield (home) and I'll copy it over for you if you'd like. Cheers, John -- "It took people a long time to figure out which machine was doing it, and even longer to figure out how. But for some reason it didn't take them any time at all to figure that I'd done it." -- Paul Tomblin -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] deb caching software for use on LANs that doesn't suck?
I've used debmirror pretty successfully On 5/9/07, John Clarke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Wed, May 09, 2007 at 09:49:52 +1000, Billy Kwong wrote: > So, has anyone come across something like apt-proxy or apt-cacher, but it > doesn't suck? (Yes I know it sounds like a big ask) :) Have you had a look at apt-mirror? It differs from apt-proxy or apt-cacher in that you create a mirror of a remote repository all at once rather than caching packages you download, so it can take a while to get setup, but then it's simple to keep up to date - just run it from cron once or twice a day. dapper + edgy + feisty, main + retricted + universe + multiverse, including updates, backports and security is 51GB in total. If you want a quick way to fill your mirror, I have a full mirror of the three latest Ubuntu distros. Bring a hard drive to either St Leonards (work, but not this week) or Lindfield (home) and I'll copy it over for you if you'd like. Cheers, John -- "It took people a long time to figure out which machine was doing it, and even longer to figure out how. But for some reason it didn't take them any time at all to figure that I'd done it." -- Paul Tomblin -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html -- Ershad Chowdhury [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] deb caching software for use on LANs that doesn't suck?
No, I'd rather not having to download the entire repository if I can help it, hence apt-cacher and apt-proxy. I might give approx (http://packages.debian.org/unstable/admin/approx) a spin, however (Thanks Jeremy Visser) Regards, Bill On 09/05/07, John Clarke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Wed, May 09, 2007 at 09:49:52 +1000, Billy Kwong wrote: > So, has anyone come across something like apt-proxy or apt-cacher, but it > doesn't suck? (Yes I know it sounds like a big ask) :) Have you had a look at apt-mirror? It differs from apt-proxy or apt-cacher in that you create a mirror of a remote repository all at once rather than caching packages you download, so it can take a while to get setup, but then it's simple to keep up to date - just run it from cron once or twice a day. dapper + edgy + feisty, main + retricted + universe + multiverse, including updates, backports and security is 51GB in total. If you want a quick way to fill your mirror, I have a full mirror of the three latest Ubuntu distros. Bring a hard drive to either St Leonards (work, but not this week) or Lindfield (home) and I'll copy it over for you if you'd like. Cheers, John -- "It took people a long time to figure out which machine was doing it, and even longer to figure out how. But for some reason it didn't take them any time at all to figure that I'd done it." -- Paul Tomblin -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
