On Thu, 13 Dec 2001, Matt Roper wrote: > If you're only running three machines and a lot of the packages that they > use are the same, maybe you should look at the apt-proxy package. I've > never used this package, but it's my understanding that you have all of > your computers point at one machine running apt-proxy. Whenever one of > those machines requests a package, it will be cached at the apt-proxy > server in case another machine needs it later. This means you don't > waste space mirroring packages that you don't care about and will never > use. > > I've been thinking about using this myself, but haven't had a chance to > set it up yet. If you try it, I'd be interested in hearing how it goes. >
Cool, that sounds like a much better solution. I was thinking of mirroring also so that I could do fast(er) network installs, if some poor unsuspecting soul^W^W^Wfriend came over and wanted linux installed. However, apt-proxy should be a bit friendlier on my file system :) I'll test that out tonight and post a little blurb about it to the list. -Gabe _______________________________________________ vox-tech mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech