2009/5/19 Sébastien Duquette <ekse.0x@xxxxxxxxx>: > On Tue, May 19, 2009 at 3:46 PM, Eric Bélanger <snowmaniscool@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> Another solution is to have all computers using only one pacman cache >> located on a single computer via nfs. So once a computer has >> downloaded a packages, all the other ones can grab it directly from >> the local network. > > I might be wrong but I think pacman is downloading the packages > directly to the cache directory. This might cause problem if the > download starts on one host and is started on another host before the > download is done. pacman will then report the package as corrupted but > doesn't try to redownload it automatically. It won't do any harm but > it can get anoying if you have a large number of systems. > > Sébastien > I believe you are correct. I only used that setup to share source cache when building packages. However, I was the only user and was building on one machine at a time (I only have two). So I didn't encounter this multiple download problem. Perhaps the method I proposed is more suitable for cases when there only one or very few users. Eric
