[Gllug] shared debian cache dir

[robin.c.smith at bt.com]

A quick point about /var and sizes, I upgraded from 2.2 to 3.0 on Sunday on
my main box and initially it wouldn't do it as it required 335Mb of spare
space on /var for all the packages, I only had 200Mb so had to sym link it
in, make sure you allocate a big enough /var...

Robin

-----Original Message-----
From: John Hearns [mailto:john.hearns at cern.ch]
Sent: Monday, September 30, 2002 15:07
To: gllug at linux.co.uk
Subject: Re: [Gllug] shared debian cache dir


On Mon, 2002-09-30 at 15:23, Vincent AE Scott wrote:
> I'm getting to like this thing you call debian to such an extent that i
> have more than one instance of it running now.  but, how can i share one
> copy of /var/cache/apt/archives amongst many installations?  

Vince, you ask an interesting question.
I'm 'into' configuration management, but with RPMs.

One word of caution /var is the directory/partition  for a system to
keep its own local things - var for variable (of course you know this)
So maybe that's a big hint - its shouldn't be shared out.


Maybe you could run a partial mirror (is this possible?)
or some sort of cache. I'm thinking of like a squid webcache, but with a
long persistence time.


Or maybe (yukk, horrible) the packages could be replaced by pointers to
ones on a shared filesystem.



-- 
John Hearns <john.hearns at cern.ch>
CERN


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