James A. Peltier wrote:
>
> Tronn Wærdahl wrote:
> >
> > I dont know about apt-cacher, but if its something to do
> with apt-get
> > you could you --download-only. Like apt-get upgrade --download-only
> >
> > Tronn
> >
>
> apt-cacher allows you to point all clients to a centralized location,
> when one client performs, say and apt-get dist-upgrade, the apt-cache
> server caches all of the packages to it's local apt directory. It's
> very convienent and easy to setup, whereas the squid solution
> proposed
> by Dag is a fair bit more conviluted.
>
> A possible solution would be to possibly extend create-repo to add
> functionality to mirror updates and packages for selected
> architectures.
> Perhaps add the proxy/caching functionality that is required to
> perform these operations?
I just have a central server mirror the updates repo with wget and
have either apache or iis serve them up to clients.
Then in the yum repo files, comment out mirrorlist=, uncomment
baseurl=, add the url to your update server first for baseurl= and
set the failovermethod=priority.
-Ross
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