On Thu, 11 Jul 2002, ramon buckland wrote: > Beautiful! > > Matthew that worked a treat! > > > apt-proxy does exactly that. > > Wowo! This is the one! I installed it and it almost walked into the kitchen > and > baked me a cake.. almost .. there was a bit of configuring first.
You should talk to the committee or the Debian SIG people about a talk on the topic. Short one would probably do. > It needed a few things which weren't setup as dependancies (shame .. oh well) Not sure what version you've got, but the version in Woody I'm looking at (1.3.0) has a dependancy on wget | rsync. It suggests dpkg-dev as well, which is how it should be. > > Packages get saved to /var/cache/apt/archives after download. You can then > > transfer them out to somewhere more tasty after that. > > apt-proxy comes with a neato tool called apt-proxy-import It didn't when I started out with it (days of old and all that stuff) but it's good to see they've plugged the holes. [install guide snipped] Is all this documented like this? Sounds like you might have found yourself a job if it isn't. And volunteer to talk about it at SLUG (one of the mini talks). -- ----------------------------------------------------------------------- #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
