Re: Advice on configuring a (partial) local mirror

On Wed, 29 Sep 2004 12:12:50 -0300
Andre Costa <[email protected]> wrote:

> 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?

Replying to myself: I just looked into package contents, and it all goes
to pretty standard places, so I guess there would be no problems with
using it here on Fedora. Still, any good/bad experiences would be
welcome.

I'll keep you posted.

Best,

Andre

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Andre Oliveira da Costa
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