On 05/11/13 01:22, Muhammad Yousuf Khan wrote:
is there anything i
can do to avoid wasting time and manage something locally so that instead
of wasting precious bandwidth i could point it to the local resource and
thing can be up to date as needed.
I set up an Approx server for my SOHO LAN:
http://packages.debian.org/wheezy/approx
It feeds i386 and amd64 boxes running Squeeze and Wheezy.
I built it with a ~7 GB /var partition that is nearly full, so you might
want to go with something larger.
Here is the Approx configuration file on the server:
2013-05-11 12:31:19 dpchrist@approx ~
$ cat /etc/approx/approx.conf | grep -v '#' | grep .
debian http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian
debian-backports http://backports.debian.org/debian-backports
security http://security.debian.org/debian-security
virtualbox http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox
Here is the Apt configuration file on a Squeeze i386 client:
2013-05-11 12:32:30 dpchrist@desktop ~
$ cat /etc/apt/sources.list | grep -v '#' | grep .
deb http://approx:9999/debian/ squeeze main
deb-src http://approx:9999/debian/ squeeze main
deb http://security.debian.org/ squeeze/updates main
deb-src http://security.debian.org/ squeeze/updates main
deb http://approx:9999/debian/ squeeze-updates main
deb-src http://approx:9999/debian/ squeeze-updates main
When building a fresh client, at the screen where it asks you for a
network mirror, scroll to the top, select "manual" (or whatever it's
called), and enter "approx:9999" for the server.
HTH,
David
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