On Mon, Jul 26, 2010 at 11:15 AM, Sagar Belure <sagar.bel...@gmail.com>wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 23, 2010 at 7:42 PM, Ashish SHUKLA <wahjava...@gmail.com>wrote: > >> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- >> Hash: SHA512 >> >> Vivek Kapoor writes: >> > On 07/23/2010 06:32 PM, Sagar Belure <sagar.bel...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> Please, bear with me, if I'm not able to properly present my >> requirement. >> >> >> >> There are some 32 and 64 bit ubuntu systems in same network. >> >> I want only one system(like, one 32 and one 64 bit systems) to be >> updated >> >> and upgraded on daily basis. >> >> And, rest of the systems, to fetch those updated packages before they >> go >> >> online and check for new packages. >> >> > From what I have understood, you don't want every machine to download >> > from the Ubuntu repositories, but only one machine should do the >> > task. It'll handle 32bit and 64bit without any issues. Use one of the >> > following >> >> > apt-proxy, apt-cacher, apt-cacher-ng, approx >> >> > I started with apt-cacher and faced update issues in long term use, so >> > I moved to approx and was happy with it, but newer version presented a >> > bit difficulty in the sense that it didn't run its own daemon. So I >> > moved onto apt-cacher-ng which has been working well for quite some >> > time now. >> >> I also used apt-cacher in past and it worked but recent versions had some >> issues, so I kept the old version pinned on my Debian box. >> >> I also tried pkg-cacher[1] because I needed to cache for 'yum' >> (fedora/centos) >> also and it worked great since it can cache both 'yum' and 'apt'. >> >> References: >> [1] http://gforge.opensource-sw.net/gf/project/pkg_cacher/frs/ >> >> HTH >> > > Thank you all for your responses. > I got options to look into and your views and experience is really > valuable. > 'apt-cacher-ng' seems to fulfill my requirements. BTW, is it ,by any chance, possible to set up 'repository-cache' server combined for 32 as well as 64 bit systems. apt-cacher-ng uses /var/cache/apt/archives as repository, and is obviously different for 32 and 64 bit systems. Any clue, to achieve combined repository? -- Thanks, Sagar Belure Security Analyst Secfence Technologies www.secfence.com _______________________________________________ Ilugd mailing list Ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd
