On Fri, 11 May 2001 09:04:16 John R Lenton wrote: > apt-get install apt-proxy
Yeah, but it's a pain to configure. You have to find rsync-enabled apt sources for it and it has a tendency to time out a lot. We tried using it for a while in work (about 10 debian machines all using apt-proxy) and it wasn't really suitable as it couldn't be used unattended. Now what I do is have a bunch of cron jobs on each machine to do "apt-get update; apt-get -d -y dist-upgrade" in the middle of the night. Then next time you do a dselect or apt-get, all the required packages will be in /var/cache/apt. They will also only be pulled down once as they're all pointing at the same squid. Martin.
