-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA512 Sagar Belure writes: > 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. The file names of the downloaded packages have architecture mentioned in them, so you don't have to worry about 32-bit packages getting overwritten by 64-bit ones. And I used a single repository with apt-cacher and pkg-cacher. HTH - -- Ashish SHUKLA | GPG: F682 CDCC 39DC 0FEA E116 20B6 C746 CFA9 E74F A4B0 freebsd.org!ashish | http://people.freebsd.org/~ashish/ “We've so many people in India, that we're able to route each network packet manually.” (nobotz) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.15 (GNU/Linux) iQIcBAEBCgAGBQJMTVBVAAoJEMdGz6nnT6SwY7kP/iDN6jMdb9c6fizag3pTEqv1 /yynBEiZYrY6M34UdeWLTixWHpYG0pxFHjuAW8nun0hNuwHIaqdp+s9aIpoxZbuq J+G8bWkzgvU/Ran2iQ+zsogqVonZr7O1/KxqKeUorybjIoJJa+Qn+QbkfZDeqjLZ ED3Y1ItQ9iredKE3RDhmr+KWLeeeDZY/m5X0ZjaFbbRdnfLU3dfbkd2XAd6EP/9V sVyQjFI0izogAvLoItkEIW2WZVErk2jXxg8hJfdOpM23PTDEtIMlxrqw/TV837w/ xKN9PUrevj7URIR6ACNcDh7l0uHq/QlPqL9+Cg9ULrp0l4leZSx9qiAPMjezleBn JN0FGVgB0mdILXEBENn3kyrIVVA1/C8jQWqoffhPkIjSXWS9CkP2WDOKWJ9m3T+/ /4ldV5hQJvJ9GN8UAK20ySQyj5BsTHZjXWPqg7TUxB9Ernrcm0xl6QIpERGjt20j 4xnUMMEDP42KP/uLgj7ymHGahoHkRBruu1kS3NDPTnA90TegCvOdnxWNGCN+KfR8 0r+8VyaIh7vcJpkTYdfTjCxaoYktH7mWUPN/Zqy+a2EvRefmG3SZ83/0myZAWMEK szobGyYw0P8eHmHfCOQDMWb0xQ/KlfMtFBXTPGaQOKruREoeJ4WqJrwoAP2xLtsk La3PRIyVQtuUi0m8j36Z =/o4C -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Ilugd mailing list Ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd
