Re: Preventing apt from deleting cached .deb files on network

Path	csiph.com!x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net!usenet.pasdenom.info!news.albasani.net!feeder.erje.net!news.internetdienste.de!news.tu-darmstadt.de!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail
From	Bob Hauck <postmaster@avalanche.org>
Newsgroups	comp.os.linux.misc
Subject	Re: Preventing apt from deleting cached .deb files on network
Date	Sun, 22 May 2011 11:59:13 -0400
Organization	Hauck Family
Lines	18
Message-ID	<slrniticmh.2vr.postmaster@cardinal.haucks.org> (permalink)
References	<MPG.283f56106ac17cd2989689@news.btinternet.com>
X-Trace	individual.net OJmaW3G9ztMaHKijtoYwmQ/lsmPFlfcAXZ0RNcWJuyziao/Wkn
X-Orig-Path	bigbird.haucks.org!not-for-mail
Cancel-Lock	sha1:rSmcZzEPqqwm3TUO1891Z/G8gOw=
User-Agent	slrn/pre1.0.0-18 (Linux)
Xref	x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net comp.os.linux.misc:1199

Show key headers only | View raw

On Thu, 19 May 2011 17:31:13 +0100, jon <jonhobley@gmail.com> wrote:
> I am using Debian on my network, and /var/cache/apt/archives is shared 
> across all machines on the network.

That sounds kind of dangerous to me.


> When I install a package using apt or dselect, the package is only 
> downloaded once. Other computers can install the same package without
> having to download again.

Maybe you should look at apt-cacher or apt-cacher-ng.  Use them to set 
up one machine as a cache and have the others download through it.


-- 
 -| Bob Hauck (Brother Nail Gun of The Short Path)
 -| http://www.haucks.org/

Back to comp.os.linux.misc | Previous | Next — Previous in thread | Next in thread | Find similar

Thread

Preventing apt from deleting cached .deb files on network jon <jonhobley@gmail.com> - 2011-05-19 17:31 +0100
  Re: Preventing apt from deleting cached .deb files on network Bob Hauck <postmaster@avalanche.org> - 2011-05-22 11:59 -0400
    Re: Preventing apt from deleting cached .deb files on network Mark Hobley <markhobley@yahoo.donottypethisbit.co> - 2011-05-22 16:48 +0000
  Re: Preventing apt from deleting cached .deb files on network Mark Hobley <markhobley@yahoo.donottypethisbit.co> - 2011-05-22 17:02 +0000
    Re: Preventing apt from deleting cached .deb files on network Chris Davies <chris-usenet@roaima.co.uk> - 2011-05-22 20:53 +0100
      Re: Preventing apt from deleting cached .deb files on network Mark Hobley <markhobley@yahoo.donottypethisbit.co> - 2011-05-22 22:22 +0000
        Re: Preventing apt from deleting cached .deb files on network Chris Davies <chris-usenet@roaima.co.uk> - 2011-05-23 10:59 +0100

csiph-web