Re: Problem sharing apt cache through NFS

Hi Sven,

On Tue, 20 Jul 2004 10:22:36 +0200
Sven Hoexter <[email protected]> wrote:

> 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.

Thks for the tip, but I don't think that's worth the effort in my case
(considering that these machines already mount volumes one from the
other through NFS). I'd rather try a little further to put it to work
with this...

Anyone knows if I can specify a different lockfile dir from the archives
dir? That would do it for me, because I could point the lockfile dir to
a local dir on the client machines, and keep accessing archives through
NFS.

TIA

Andre

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Andre Oliveira da Costa
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