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 ______________________________________________________________________ This e-mail, and any attachments thereto, is intended only for use by the addressee(s) named herein and may contain legally privileged and/or confidential information. If you are not the intended recipient of this e-mail, you are hereby notified that any dissemination, distribution or copying of this e-mail, and any attachments thereto, is strictly prohibited. If you have received this e-mail in error, please immediately notify the sender and permanently delete the original and any copy or printout thereof.