https://dev1galaxy.org/viewtopic.php?pid=3224#p3224
by nixer:
I have a couple of "nasty" hacks. They are done on all my devuan installs. So,
I will share.
Before I start, one thing you may want to know. I have a home network server
operational 24/7. It is only off during power outages, which is seldom. The
first of my hacks begin with already having successfully configured nfs to be
shared on the server, and both hacks depend on the installation of and
configuring autofs on the client computers. Autofs is used on both hacks, to
mount nfs network mounts and to mount the local partitions. With autofs, the
fstab file is not altered, but fstab may need to be altered to successfully
test and troubleshoot the mount procedure.
Hack #1 - Recycle and Reuse Apt Cache, Use NFS network mount (with autofs)
I use this "nasty hack" to use, share, and recycle my downloaded apt cache
across all my devuan installations. I rename /var/cache/apt/archives to
archives.local and then I create a symlink to the network mount location.
- Manually create the folder /mnt/nfs, and then /mnt/nfs/auto-server-data
- Install autofs, as root
apt-get install autofs
- Add the below to /etc/auto.master, adjusting for your paths
# nfs shares /mnt/nfs/auto-server-data /etc/auto.nfs --timeout=30 --ghost
- Create the file /etc/auto.nfs and add to it, adjusting to your needs
data -fstype=nfs,rw 192.168.1.100:/mnt/data
As root, enter the command
service autofs restart
These two entries combined will mount the remote location from
192.168.1.100:/mnt/data, and mount it locally at
/mnt/nfs/auto-server-data/data. The mount will timeout after 30 seconds
(minutes?) and the "data" folder itself will disappear. Don't worry, it will be
re-created as needed, and upon a re-mount. After it is successfully mounted,
then the symlink to /var/cache/apt/archives can be created with, and adjust for
your paths:
# ln -s /mnt/nfs/auto-server-data/data/devuan/apt/archives
/var/cache/apt/archives
For any permissions problem on the local system, I adjust the network folder to
0777. Be sure to set apt to not delete the cache. I do this from within
synaptic. This hack allows me to save bandwidth on the repository servers as I
have several devuan installs in my network.
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