> From: Dennis Wicks [mailto:w...@mgssub.com] > Sent: Thursday, March 12, 2009 11:22 AM > Subject: Local mirroring How-To? > > Greetings; > > I remember there was a discussion sometime back about this > but I can't locate it. > > Here is my situation. I have six Debian/Lenny machines that > I have to update/upgrade at various times, and some of these > runs take hours for each system over my 768Kbs connection. > > I have the space to install a local mirror of one or two > releases of Debian so I can do updates over my local net at > 100 Mbs and speed things up considerably. > > But ... I can't find anything current about how to do that. > > Does anybody have any pointers to a good, and current, set > of directions on how to do this? Or have a cookbook that > works for you?
You probably don't want a full mirror. They are big (last doc I saw said 60GB per architecture/version). You want something that will only provide the packages you need/use. I prefer apt-cacher to do this. Try this link [1] to get you started. Yes, the guide is almost 2 years old, but it still works. There is also apt-cacher-ng and apt-proxy. They all do the same thing; they cache packages that run through them. If you search the list long enough, you will find people who recommend each of these. I prefer apt-cacher simply because it was easy to install, configure, and I have not had problems with it. The other plus for me is that I run Etch, Lenny, and Squeeze installs with a large mix of 32bit and 64bit systems plus 3 releases of Ubuntu which also have 32 and 64 bit installs. I only have one package cacher that supports all of them. My entire cache is at 9GB. Hope this helps. Have fun! ~Stack~ [1] http://www.debuntu.org/how-to-set-up-a-repository-cache-with-apt-cacher -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
