Kevin Philp wrote:
> I have a small office of machines running Ubuntu. When upgrading I
> would like to share the downloaded files so we don't download the same
> file over and over. apt-proxy is one possibility but can I just share
> /var/cache/apt over nfs? if I upgrade one machine at a time I
> shouldn't get any locking problems. Is this a sensible approach or
> fraught with problems I am unaware of?
1) apt-get install apt-proxy on the server best suited for the job.
2) Point your machines to the server where apt-proxy is installed. If
not already available in the cache it will be downloaded automatically.
3) Apt happiness, and bandwidth available for other things.
PS. I haven't used apt-proxy for a number of years, so I can't confirm
that it still works as well as I remember. YMMV
Best of luck.
>> Thanks
>> Kevin.
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