Managing lots of ubuntu workstations

[Niki Kovacs]

Le samedi 15 octobre 2005 à 23:14 -0500, Rich Duzenbury a écrit :
> Hi again ubuntu-ers,

Detailed explanation of how to setup apt-proxy in 5 minutes: Server-side
apt-proxy.conf:

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[DEFAULT]
;; All times are in seconds, but you can add a suffix
;; for minutes(m), hours(h) or days(d)

;; Server IP to listen on
;address = 192.168.1.1

;; Server port to listen on
port = 9999

;; Control files (Packages/Sources/Contents) refresh rate
;;
;; Minimum time between attempts to refresh a file
min_refresh_delay = 1h

;; Minimum age of a file before attempting an update (NOT YET
IMPLEMENTED)
;min_age = 23h

;; Uncomment to make apt-proxy continue downloading even if all
;; clients disconnect.  This is probably not a good idea on a
;; dial up line.
;; complete_clientless_downloads = 1

;; Debugging settings.
;; for all debug information use this:
;; debug = all:9
debug = all:4 db:0

;; Debugging remote python console
;; Do not enable in an untrusted environment
;telnet_port = 9998
;telnet_user = apt-proxy
;telnet_password = secret

;; Network timeout when retrieving from backend servers
timeout = 15

;; Cache directory for apt-proxy
cache_dir = /var/cache/apt-proxy

;; Use passive FTP? (default=on)
passive_ftp = on

;; Use HTTP proxy?
;http_proxy = host:port

;; Enable HTTP pipelining within apt-proxy (for test purposes)
;disable_pipelining=0

;;--------------------------------------------------------------
;; Cache housekeeping

;; Time to perform periodic housekeeping:
;;  - delete files that have not been accessed in max_age
;;  - scan cache directories and update internal tables
cleanup_freq = off

;; Maximum age of files before deletion from the cache (seconds)
max_age = off

;; Maximum number of versions of a .deb to keep per distribution
max_versions = 4

;; Add HTTP backends dynamicaly if not already defined? (default=on)
;dynamic_backends = on

;;---------------------------------------------------------------
;;---------------------------------------------------------------
;; Backend servers
;;
;; Place each server in its own [section]

[myubuntu]
;; The main Debian archive
;; You can override the default timeout like this:
;timeout = 30

;; Rsync server used to rsync the Packages file (NOT YET IMPLEMENTED)
;;rsyncpackages = rsync://ftp.de.debian.org/debian

;; Backend servers, in order of preference
backends =
    http://fr.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu
    http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu
    http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu

[marillat]
backends =
    ftp://ftp.nerim.net/debian-marillat

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So much for the server side. (/etc/init.d/apt-proxy start)

On the client side, I have this in each /etc/apt/sources.list:

deb http://192.168.1.1:9999/myubuntu breezy main restricted universe
multiverse
deb http://192.168.1.1:9999/myubuntu breezy-security main restricted
universe multiverse
deb http://192.168.1.1:9999/myubuntu breezy-updates main restricted
universe multiverse

deb http://192.168.1.1:9999/marillat sarge main



192.168.1.1 being the gateway / proxy IP, of course. change that to your
needs, as well as the mirror urls (mine is France).

...

apt-get install apt-proxy
man apt-proxy

Works like a charm, and took me 5 minutes to setup.

Cheers,

Niki Kovacs