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
