Toby Corkindale <[email protected]> writes: > Hi, > Linux distros using the apt package management system tend to cache > downloaded packages in /var/cache/apt/archives/ > > If you have many very similar machines set up, then you'll almost > certainly have a HTTP proxy cache setup for them to retrieve packages > through, to reduce huge duplication of downloads. > > This essentially obsoletes the /var/cache/apt/archives, though. And > when you're running dozens of virtual machines, it'd be nice to avoid > storing all these duplicate files. > > What's the right way to disable it? > I see I can adjust the max size and age via the > APT::Archives::Max{Age,Size} parameters, but what about just turning > it off altogether?
PS: if you use NFS instead of HTTP (thus, file: in sources.list), it won't cache locally. _______________________________________________ luv-main mailing list [email protected] http://lists.luv.asn.au/listinfo/luv-main
