Re: Advice on configuring a (partial) local mirror

On Wed, 29 Sep 2004, Andre Costa wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I am trying to setup a "partial" local mirror for upgrades using apt-get
> here. Let me explain it a little further:
>
> we have 10-20 boxes running Linux (FC1) here on our lab; I would like to
> configure just one of them to upgrade directly from the "official"
> repositories (i.e. the ones on the net), and I would like to point all
> the others to grab updates from this same machine only.

You could try apt-netcache.

http://rpm.pbone.net/index.php3/stat/4/idpl/1344245/com/apt-netcache-1.0-54567cl.noarch.rpm.html

That is probably an old link but it should get you started....

Regards,
Rob

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