On Thu, 2010-03-04 at 12:33 +0000, Antonia Mey wrote: > The manual also mentions apt-proxy? Would that work, to install debian > on 5 machines?
Apt-proxy is a candidate for removal from the next release of debian, see http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=460338 , due to lack of any core developers, and a large number of bugs. I would steer away from it. I have used apt-cacher (which seems to satisfy similar goals) with good results for several years now. All you need to do is to install the package (as well as apache2 server - you may use an existing webserver if you have one) on a machine on your intranet and point FAI's sources.list at it. Apt-cacher has been very reliable and economical (downloads only the packages you actually need in your installations). Only once or twice I have had some problems (details have been forgotten) with apt-cacher, which were easily resolved by deleting the cache directory and re-initializing it from scratch. -- Toomas Tamm e-mail: tt-fai (at) kky . ttu . ee Chair of Inorganic Chemistry voice: INT+372-620-2810 Tallinn University of Technology fax: INT+372-620-2828 Ehitajate tee 5, EE-19086 Tallinn, Estonia http://www.kk.ttu.ee/toomas/
