Repository Mirrors - how often are they updated

[Karl Bowden]

I'm using approx for local apt caching.
Not sure what the difference is. It was REALLY easy to setup though.
Anybody have any plus' or minus' for approx vs apt-proxy?

- Karlos


On 6/6/07, Daniel Mons <daniel.mons at iinet.net.au> wrote:
>
> I'm an iiNet user, and have never had any problems with their mirrors
> (Ubuntu or otherwise).  I find they stay within sync of the primary
> mirrors within 24 hours, which is good enough for me.  As already
> mentioned, if you're having some issues maybe contact tech support and
> find out if there's a problem somewhere between you and the mirror.
>
> East-coast iiNet users can also download from Pacific Mirror (also a
> PIPE Networks member) without any cost to their monthly quota:
> http://www.pacific.net.au/mirror/
>
> Also, if you run a business or have more than one Ubuntu machine on your
> LAN, consider using apt-proxy:
> http://apt-proxy.sourceforge.net/
>
> I use it for all my clients (businesses ranging from 2 PCs to 1000 for
> my biggest client) and it works marvelously.  It speeds up local
> upgrades and installs, and saves them a bucket of download quota in the
> process.
>
> -Dan
>
>
> Gavin wrote:
> >  I've been an Ubuntu user for a little while now and enjoy a little
> tinkering
> > and tweaking as my experience and competence with it grows. A few months
> ago I
> > changed my repos to iinet's ftp mirror and thought that I was onto a
> good thing
> > - being an ozemail/iinet customer it wouldn't count toward my quotas.
> >
> > However, I've found that updates were less frequent, and often failed to
> > download on first or second attempts. Lately, it seems worse - no
> updates fromm
> > the iinet mirror for several weeks.  If I change the repos back to the
> official
> > au mirror, or add other mirrors, within a few minutes there is a backlog
> of
> > updates waiting -- if I change straight back to iinet, the 'updates
> available'
> > icon soon disappears.
> >
> > I suspect that iinet may not be updating its mirror very frequently, or
> having
> > some other problems. Apt and Synaptic work fine and normal package
> downloads are
> > usually very fast, so the iinet repo works, but I don't seem to be
> getting any
> > updates from there.
> >
> > Any iinet Ubuntu users having similar problems? Other mirrors?
> >
> >
>
>
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