Hi All Here I am pasting the text from ubuntu (Google) Summer of code page
Simple Apt Proxy Even a small network of ubuntu machines would download ubuntu packages multiple times. a smart apt caching proxy server could avoid this, saving bandwidth. There already exists apt-proxy, but requires configuring on the server and clients. A simple-apt-proxy would contain a control panel to decide which sources get cached, and how much to cache. It could advertise its self by avahi (which would be detected by synaptic,update-manager etc) Details about apt-proxy is available here http://apt-proxy.sourceforge.net/ I am quite familiar with apt-proxy and network programming in general but I have no previous experience of working with avahi, could you people kindly guide me on what will be the amount of work involved and give some pointers about how to proceed. Regards Prashant -- Prashant Kumar Senior Undergraduate, Dept. of Computer Sc. and Engineering IIT Kanpur , India. http://home.iitk.ac.in/~prashkr Ph # +91-9935164525 Everyday is a good day; just some days are better than others. _______________________________________________ avahi mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/avahi
