On Wed, 2007-11-14 at 18:27 -0500, Scott Abbey wrote: > I think the point of moving it is so that it receives official support from > Canonical. That way those on paid support contracts can still expect > assistance from Canonical when using the package. Canonical only provides > paid support for packages in main and restricted. Universe and multiverse > receive community support only.
Ahhh (he says with bells going off like a Las Vegas slot machine) In that case, I would like to second that motion. Especially with Jeos coming out. Not all VM need to have a public facing. I often set up servers in a VM based environment where one or more machines are not given access to the outside network (only internal networking between the virtual machines). Without apt-cacher you either need to allow that machine access to the Internet, or do without updates. Example: Several VMs use a central set of accounts. You store those accounts in LDAP. If the LDAP server only has networking between the VMs, you do not have to worry about setting up TLS. But the second that machine has external visibility, TLS it mandatory. Any time you can relax the security, things run faster and more reliably. So, by putting that LDAP server in an inaccessible place, allows you to run without all those layers of security (good design trumps good security every time). Given this example, the machine with no external network support, can use whichever machine has apt-cacher as a proxy to get updates, without compromising its security. Given the announcement of Ubunut Jeos, moving apt-cacher to a place where it will get support. But I still think it would be cool if the install process scanned the local net looking for any machine with port 3142 open, and reconfigured apt to use the cache by default. -- Kevin Fries Senior Linux Engineer Computer and Communications Technology, Inc A Division of Japan Communications Inc. -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss
