Re: Problem sharing apt cache through NFS

Sven Hoexter <[email protected]> Tue, 20 Jul 2004 10:22:36 +0200
Newsgroups gmane.linux.conectiva.apt-rpm
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Mon, Jul 19, 2004 at 02:18:10PM -0300, Andre Costa wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> this is more a basic UNIX question, but I am pretty sure you guys will
> be able to help me out with it: we would like to share
> /var/cache/apt/archives among a group of machines, with one of them
> acting as the "master repository" from which the rest would mount this
> directory, so that we would only need to download packages once.
> 
> PS: Is there any better way of sharing apt-get downloads?
http://apt-proxy.sourceforge.net/

A normal caching proxy with a high caching limit for the file size could
work aswell.

HTH
Sven
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