Re: Partial APT mirroring...

2001-12-10 Thread Chris Halls
On Fri, Dec 07, 2001 at 04:15:42PM -0500, Aaron Traas wrote: Debian servers... not sure why this is. It also is a little flaky; It often gets to 99% when downloading a package, and then freezes. At that point I have to ^C and restart the apt-get upgrade/install/whatever and it works fine. I

Partial APT mirroring...

2001-12-07 Thread Don Werve
I hope I'm not asking for something that has been re-hashed a few dozen times, but a Google search hasn't turned much up, and this is a bit of an irritant. How would one go about setting up a local partial APT mirror? One that mirrors only specific trees (such as stable and testing), and can

Re: Partial APT mirroring...

2001-12-07 Thread Aaron Traas
There is a package that sorta does what you want... it's called apt-proxy. You set up a box as your apt-proxy, and point all of your machines to that box. Every time someone downloads a package, it is cached on the apt-proxy; thus the first time you download, it will be slow, but subsequent