Re: Advice on configuring a (partial) local mirror

On Wed, 29 Sep 2004, Andre Costa wrote:
> 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:
>>>> I am trying to setup a "partial" local mirror for upgrades using
>>>> apt-get here. Let me explain it a little further:
>>> You could try apt-netcache.
>> 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.

I haven't tried it so YMMV. I came across it in my quest to get a usable
static apt-get rpm going on Fedora Core 2 (A very slow process....)

Regards,
Rob

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