Re: Package caching

2017-03-01 Thread stan
On Wed, 01 Mar 2017 09:29:33 + Russel Winder wrote: > Debian has the approx system for package caching. This is just a proxy > for caching actually demanded packages. It does mean though that I > only download once and can upgrade 5 machines. Since Internet is still > metered du

Re: Package caching

2017-03-01 Thread Peter Robinson
On Wed, Mar 1, 2017 at 12:02 PM, Russel Winder wrote: > On Wed, 2017-03-01 at 10:45 +0100, Dan Horák wrote: > […] >> >> you can set a private Fedora mirror using squid, my old write up is >> at >> http://sharkcz.livejournal.com/2534.html (my server still works :-)) >> and I'm sure there were other

Re: Package caching

2017-03-01 Thread Russel Winder
On Wed, 2017-03-01 at 10:45 +0100, Dan Horák wrote: […] > > you can set a private Fedora mirror using squid, my old write up is > at > http://sharkcz.livejournal.com/2534.html (my server still works :-)) > and I'm sure there were other guides too. People have mentioned "Just use Squid" in the pas

Re: Package caching

2017-03-01 Thread Dan Horák
On Wed, 01 Mar 2017 09:29:33 + Russel Winder wrote: > Debian has the approx system for package caching. This is just a proxy > for caching actually demanded packages. It does mean though that I > only download once and can upgrade 5 machines. Since Internet is still > metered du

Package caching

2017-03-01 Thread Russel Winder
Debian has the approx system for package caching. This is just a proxy for caching actually demanded packages. It does mean though that I only download once and can upgrade 5 machines. Since Internet is still metered during working hours for some of us, this caching is extremely useful. So the