[ubuntu-za] Apt-cacher-ng mirroring

[Ricardo Botha]

Hey Raymond,

I do want to mirror only the Nutty distro and not a complete server with possibly all distro's.

If I can get my things setup and working properly I might be able to convert a few friends of mine to go Ubuntu and to start experimenting / playing with it. We will be installing vm's and configuring and messing up things to the best we can in order to learn.

The other problem we will have is that there is no internet access whatsoever so I want to cache everything in order to install new software with the guys.

Or can you recommend something else?


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Ricardo Botha
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-----Original Message-----
From: Raymond Barbour <xraya4t at gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 19 May 2011 09:52:30 
To: <irmandos at gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [ubuntu-za] Apt-cacher-ng mirroring

Ok, I've not used that, do you have many machines that you need that
functionality? Do you not just need the package import functionality?
Mirrorring a while server will be a large download.
Raymond
On May 19, 2011 9:47 AM, "Ricardo Botha" <irmandos at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Raymond,
>
> Yes I am aware of the proxy details and that whatever package the client
machine requests gets downloaded and cached for future use. However the
mirror part I am talking about is for the apt-cacher-ng to pre-cache all the
packages for a distribution before a client even requests it same as
apt-mirror does (new function recently added to apt-cacher-ng).
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> Regards
> Ricardo Botha
> 082 894 0053
> irmandos at gmail.com (personal)
> irmandos at live.com (personal)
> ricardo.botha2 at exxaro.com (work)
> www.irmandos.co.za
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Raymond Barbour <xraya4t at gmail.com>
> Date: Thu, 19 May 2011 09:42:01
> To: Ubuntu South African Local Community<ubuntu-za at lists.ubuntu.com>; <
irmandos at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [ubuntu-za] Apt-cacher-ng mirroring
>
> Hi, I've used it. Once it is set up you just need to point you machine at
> the proxy. This is done by creating the following file:
> /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/proxy
> It should have one line:
> Acquire::http::Proxy "http://server:port"
>
> Then it works like a bomb, no other changes, added custom sources as usual
> and they will be cached
>
> Raymond
> On May 19, 2011 9:32 AM, "Ricardo Botha" <irmandos at gmail.com> wrote:
>

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