You could mirror the nearest debian's ftp mirror, make your box an internal ftp server, with proftpd for example. next, on the other boxes, you do an apt-config where you set your source as a ftp server, obviously yours... et voilà !
Jerome Demeyer. ----- Original Message ----- From: Giacomo Mulas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: security debian <debian-security@lists.debian.org> Sent: Tuesday, February 13, 2001 11:41 AM Subject: Re: sources.list > On Sat, 10 Feb 2001, Duane Powers wrote: > > > I have a question - I have a dozen boxen that I am maintaining, all with > > Debian ( almost all potato - one woody) I would like to save bandwidth > > and centralize administration by utilizing one of the boxes as a apt-get > > source. then I can apt-get update ; apt-get dist-upgrade ; done, on one > > box, and save all the .deb's then use those .deb's for the other boxen > > without actually mirroring the whole debian site. > > Here is one way to do it: > > - install a web proxy (e.g. squid) on one of your computers > - direct apt to go through the proxy (you need to add one line to the apt > configuration file, I don't quite remember the syntax but you will find it > in the man page) > > In this way, the first box you upgrade will cause the proxy server to > download the packages, all the subsequent ones will get the cached file. > > Bye > Giacomo >
