[NTLUG:Discuss] Re: Creating an APT-GET Mirror

[Bryan J. Smith]

On Mon, 2004-10-25 at 11:42, Stuart Johnston wrote:
> You might also look at http://apt-proxy.sourceforge.net/.  Rather than
> downloading an entire mirror, apt-proxy will simply download and cache
> packages as they are requested.  I've never actually used it myself but it
> sounds like it will work for RPM distros.

APT is APT, YUM is YUM.  The package back-end doesn't matter except when
it comes to the end-system actually resolving dependencies, fetching and
installing the packages.  I assume such a "proxy" wouldn't need to
understand dependency resolution, which is done at the end-system.

This is a nice option for performance on a network.  I've used it for
both Debian and Fedora based systems.

I assume (and I may be wrong), however, Dennis is more interested in
students creating their own, local APT repositories as a tool for
controlling system releases.  But then again, it's really little more
than a matter of running a gen script.

-- Bryan

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