question on package caching

Derek Broughton news at pointerstop.ca
Sat Oct 15 20:02:31 UTC 2005


Matthew Palmer wrote:

> On Fri, Oct 14, 2005 at 08:54:05PM -0400, Eric S. Johansson wrote:
>> in addition to ubuntu, I'm running gentoo (will go away asa xen is a
>> little more stable).  One thing I am doing to cut down the load on the
>> network etc. is run a local cache for Gentoo packages.  Now that I have
>> four machines running ubuntu, I would like to do the same thing for deb
>> packages.   is there any pointers to how one can do this?
> 
> apt-proxy, yeah!
> </austinpowers>

My choice too, though I believe apt-move can also be used to build a cache.
-- 
derek





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