Re: Advice on configuring a (partial) local mirror

On Wed, 29 Sep 2004 10:58:10 -0400 (EDT)
Robert Hardy <[email protected]> wrote:

> 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

Hi Robert,

thks a lot -- the description seems perfectly adequate to my problem.
Will investigate it ASAP. One question though: that link points to a
Conectiva-specific package, and there doesn't seem to exist RPMs for
other distros. Will it work on our Fedora boxes? Anyone else had tried
this (with any distro) and could share some thoughts?

TIA

Andre

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Andre Oliveira da Costa
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