On Fri, 21 Dec 2001 at 23:16, Horatio B. Bogbindero wrote: > this i would rather do than have each debian user in the university. > currently, there are only two but i feel that this could grow and > mirroring would be a good idea. of course, apt-proxy would be a better > idea (with akamai, squid-http accelerator like intelligence). could you > brief me on how i could get apt-proxy to work?
Alternatively you can set up your Squid settings so they cache more aggressively. I use that here, and since apt goes through http_proxy and ftp_proxy (the environment variables), it uses the proxy. :) > how big would the entire "sid" tree be? i do not have 100GB thus making > apt-proxy a better alternative. It turns it you don't need 100GB. My bad. See Eric Pareja's correction. :) > i would like a behaviour such that if i already download a particular > package and then later somebody else downloads the same package it just > gets the package from a cache. this way i save bandwidth (or more like > efficiently use bandwidth) Squid does that, as long as people properly configure their environment variables so that things like apt know what proxy to use. Or maybe transparent proxying, but I've never ventured into that area. --> Jijo -- Federico Sevilla III :: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Network Administrator :: The Leather Collection, Inc. GnuPG Key: http://jijo.leathercollection.ph/jijo.gpg _ Philippine Linux Users Group. Web site and archives at http://plug.linux.org.ph To leave: send "unsubscribe" in the body to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To subscribe to the Linux Newbies' List: send "subscribe" in the body to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
