On Thu, 11 Jul 2002, ramon buckland wrote: > Now, my proxy server is quite happily caching > these requests, thus the 2nd and so on installs > don't actually pull it down .. good. (until the cache > expires of course.) > > But,. has anyone built there own local repository from packages > that they have installed, AND have it auto update.
You can do it with apt-move, I believe, but the easiest way is simply to use apt-proxy on the proxy server. It will salve all your ills, and leave you with minty-fresh breath![1] > I would like to have a repository of my own so that Each Debian box > can have a local apt-source and they look there first and > if it's not there, then get it from the other sources. > I have i386 and PowerPC so the reposiroty would need to have the > standard stuctures also. apt-proxy does exactly that. > Is there some neato features in apt to auto sync (or save the .deb > packages to a location after they have been installed. Packages get saved to /var/cache/apt/archives after download. You can then transfer them out to somewhere more tasty after that. [1] Minty-fresh breath not guaranteed. -- ----------------------------------------------------------------------- #include <disclaimer.h> Matthew Palmer, Geek In Residence http://ieee.uow.edu.au/~mjp16 -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
