On May 17, 2010, at 12:22 PM, Gregory Eric Sanderson <gzou2000@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Mon, May 17, 2010 at 10:45 AM, Rogutės Sparnuotos <rogutes@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > m >> wrote: > >> Andre Osku Schmidt (2010-05-16 13:33): >>> 2010/5/16 Ng Oon-Ee <ngoonee@xxxxxxxxx>: >>>> 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. >>> >>> do you mean a general mirroring tool ? >>> as i didn't found anything pkg specific mirror tool... >>> >>> and wouldn't a mirror tool require my server to have ALL >>> core/extra/community packages ? how big are those repos ? >> <...> >> >> I don't really remember your initial question, but I use one package >> directory for 3 computers by simply having a central /var/cache/ >> pacman, >> which I then mount read-write with samba. To use it from the >> installer, >> you would have to install 'smbclient' after booting. >> > > That solution is also mentioned on the wiki, but I see 2 > disadvatages to > mounting /var/cache/pacman through the network. > 1. If you're on a laptop and not at home, you don't have access to > your > packages, and If you want to install packages anyway you have to > manually > unmount, install, and remove the packages from the directory to to > cause > problems for when it will be remounted. > 2. Although rare, if or have frequent network connectivity problems > (for > example, your connection goes dead in the middle of copying a file) > then it > becomes a hassle This is the same conclusion I came to, and why I started the "pacproxy" app... My sshfs mount would be down without me knowing; I just don't think it's a very good/elegant solution. I intended pacproxy to be an apt-proxy clone, with ABS "auto repository" support, and foriegn ABS support (so I could have separate build machines, and be able to broadcast their ABS tree as an independent repo) right now though, it works well for simple proxying and caching, and is a viable solution to the OP's problem. Perhaps we could make it more feature complete, and include it in the official repos as a more comprehensive solution to fickle network mounting. Else I will finish it eventually :-) C Anthony
