On May 16, 2010, at 4:32 AM, Ng Oon-Ee <ngoonee@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Sat, 2010-05-15 at 23:47 +0200, Andre "Osku" Schmidt wrote: >> 2010/5/15 Ng Oon-Ee <ngoonee@xxxxxxxxx>: >>> Check out 'pkgd' >> >> thanks, works nicely! >> >> only couple issues that would be nice if it could do too (or already >> does, and i just didn't find out how) >> >> - not usable from arch installer. i assume i cant use it as proxy >> setting what is asked in the installer. but maybe i can somehow else >> use it from the installer? > > You would need (AFAIK) to install some packages first to start using > it. >> >> - if the package is not found on the pkgd server, it will be loaded >> from internet to the client machine. is there a way to tell the pkgd >> server to download it and serve it to the client ? > > Not that I'm aware off. Talk to Xyne. > > Perhaps you'd just want to set up your own mirror. There's projects > for > that as well in the AUR, just search. I wrote a Piece of Junk app to do exactly this... Serve packages from a cache or retrieve from the net and serve to client. I used it to install custom stuff during install (btrfs-progs and friends in my case). Works well enough for one time type stuff. Search forums for "pacproxy". C Anthony
