On 9/13/05, antgel wrote:
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> If you attempt to install a package not cached, it downloads it on the
> fly. Not sure if that's what you want.
>
>
It seems that apt-proxy will work for what I want at home on my machines since
I will install much of the same software on all machines.
Thanks
Preston Boyington wrote:
Thank you and I will start looking at apt-proxy.
Most likely I won't (currently) need anything more than apt-proxy.
BUT, when I decide to open my connection to others (I am one of the
few that has more than dial-up in my area) what will I need to do to
allow them to in
On 9/12/05, Preston Boyington <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On 9/12/05, Mark Lijftogt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:> > Because you told us that it is for home use only I don't see any use in> FAI, or getting the whole shabang that Debian has to offer. Over
15.000> packages downloaded, and at the most 10
On 9/12/05, Mark Lijftogt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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> Because you told us that it is for home use only I don't see any use in
> FAI, or getting the whole shabang that Debian has to offer. Over 15.000
> packages downloaded, and at the most 1000 used if you are totally lost
> and out of luck.
>
On Mon, Sep 12, 2005 at 01:27:30PM -0500, Preston Boyington wrote:
> antgel to debian-user wrote:
>
> > Perhaps I missed the point, but don't you want to use apt-proxy for
> > offering this service?
>
> I was under the impression that apt-proxy was used for serving packages that
> one had downl
antgel to debian-user wrote:
> Perhaps I missed the point, but don't you want to use apt-proxy for
> offering this service?
I was under the impression that apt-proxy was used for serving packages that
one had downloaded for a particular machine. So if I had downloaded "pingus"
for my child it
On 9/12/05, Mark Lijftogt wrote:
> I would start with FAI if I would be doing 1 installs a week. Anything
> below that would need some carefull thought, simply because it is a lot
> of work to set it up and to maintain your profiles that you create. I am
> not sure if that is what you want.
>
> N
On Mon, Sep 12, 2005 at 09:40:24AM -0500, Preston Boyington wrote:
> I have successfully used Debmirror (thanks to all responders) to create a
> local mirror and now I want to use it for my home network.
>
> I have been reading up on a FAI server and have also had suggested to me to
> use Apache
I have successfully used Debmirror (thanks to all responders) to create a local
mirror and now I want to use it for my home network.
I have been reading up on a FAI server and have also had suggested to me to use
Apache to serve Debian (and a couple of other) distros.
The server is on a private
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