On Mon, May 17, 2010 at 7:35 PM, C Anthony Risinger <anthony@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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 > hi, this sounds perfect! http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=87115 could you put it in a VCS (like gitorious.org) ? and a more verbose howto ? like: - does the code in "how to use" box at the forum post go in the pacproxy machine configs ? - what/where do i set/use this in the client(s) ? - whats /archlinux dir ? should i create it, how ? - can't i use /var/cache/pacman/pkg/ ? - does this work with the arch installer ? these may be "stupid" questions, but i'm still pretty new to Arch way of things. cheers .andre
