* Michael <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2007 Aug 27 09:05 -0500]:
>
>
> I ran apt-proxy for years and it's actually a quite cool thing.
> But it's designed for serving many hosts (on a LAN).
> For home usage, updating laptops from a PC, it's way too much admin overhead
> IMHO.
> You always have to care to sync two config dirs (apt and apt-proxy), adjust
> the firewall, deal with update troubles (for example, python), and so on.
That's kind of what I figured. The two other machines are remote and
nowhere close to a LAN. It's as easy to burn the .deb files to CD and
copy them manually as any other method for me.
> I really recommend KISS - keep it stupid simple, and just rsync or NFS mount
> the PCs apt cache.
>
> oh, and well thinking about your next argument ;) NFS server is always worth
> running on a linux home net, even with only one PC and one Laptop. And i
> don't argue over it ;) it's the best you can do, besides Samba. Where NFS is
> much faster.
Due to a suggestion from this very list I set up sshfs and have
jetisonned NFS. There isn't enough of a performance difference for me
to worry about. I am much happier about the security of SSH vs NFS.
- Nate >>
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