Hi I am puneet

Daniel Holbach daniel.holbach at ubuntu.com
Tue Mar 23 09:57:12 GMT 2010


On 19.03.2010 23:10, Dmitrijs Ledkovs wrote:
>> 2) An application to Update all computers which are connected through LAN
>> from any computer which gets updated first.
>> For example, If some one updates his/her Ubuntu then all other users using
>> the same LAN can update that package from him/her. This will save lots of
>> bandwidth and load on servers as well as users will get Instant packages( As
>> places where internet is distributed on LAN like in colleges Speed of
>> Internet generally degrades and LAN is having 100Mbps speed which is any
>> time faster than that of internet).
>> I already have implemented this in Java (with little success).
> 
> Have you tried apt-cacher-ng? It does what you need =) also there is
> squid configuration to make local deb caches be auto-discoverable on
> local network using avahi. (available in lucid already as far as I
> know).

In lucid and I backported it to karmic:

	http://daniel.holba.ch/blog/?p=630

Have a great day,
 Daniel



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