Re: [arch-general] How to cache pacman mirror for LAN

2011-06-05 Thread Henrik Andersson
I use a central server for simply caching with NFS (as in the wiki basicly) for five machines at home. And it works great and not having to add other packages just feels more simple in my imho. Was unaware about not being able to use the cache simultaneously though and has never been an issue for m

Re: [arch-general] How to cache pacman mirror for LAN

2011-06-05 Thread Hyacinthe Cartiaux
I use apt-cacher-ng configured for archlinux repositories :) http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=40662 https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=120068

Re: [arch-general] How to cache pacman mirror for LAN

2011-06-05 Thread Takayuki Muranushi
Thank you Gary, Simon. Pacserve will be best solution if it works. I'll give it a try. Also, NFS solution is OK because most of the time I'll run the update automatically and I'll write a script to handle the timing. 2011/6/5 Simon Schneider : > You can also share the pacman directory /var/cache/p

Re: [arch-general] How to cache pacman mirror for LAN

2011-06-05 Thread Simon Schneider
You can also share the pacman directory /var/cache/pacman/pkg via NFS or some other protocol. Whenever a new package is requested, it gets downloaded to your login node which stores it for later use in case another client needs it. The drawback is, that you can't upgrade two machines at the same ti

Re: [arch-general] How to cache pacman mirror for LAN

2011-06-04 Thread Gary Wright
On Sat, Jun 4, 2011 at 5:32 PM, Takayuki Muranushi wrote: > Hello, > > I'm building a computer cluster with about 20 nodes, all of them > running ArchLinux. One of them is the 'login' node connected to the > Internet, other nodes share Internet connection via the login node > being a router. > htt

[arch-general] How to cache pacman mirror for LAN

2011-06-04 Thread Takayuki Muranushi
Hello, I'm building a computer cluster with about 20 nodes, all of them running ArchLinux. One of them is the 'login' node connected to the Internet, other nodes share Internet connection via the login node being a router. https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Internet_Share Now, when I update the