[Gllug] shared debian cache dir

[John Hearns]

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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