[frgeek-michiana] Re: Warehouse Report - Sept. 15, 2011

  • From: Tony Germano <tony_germano@xxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <frgeek-michiana@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Sat, 17 Sep 2011 07:22:13 -0400


>IIRC when I had done the Debian repository @ the Chippewa warehouse, it was 
>like 200g....
>
>Richard
>
>Update: Ubuntu says about 40g using apt-mirror
>http://www.arsgeek.com/2007/02/14/how-to-set-up-your-own-local-repositories-with-apt-mirror/

Unfortunately(?), Ubuntu is much larger now than it was in early 2007.


> You could try apt-proxy - Debian archive proxy and partial mirror
> builder
> 
> I used it a while ago. apt-proxy caches packages and updates as they are
> installed, if it doesn't have it fetches it from the repository. 
> 

This is actually what I was thinking about after I had sent the email 
yesterday. I was just looking at apt-cacher, which seems to be similar to 
apt-proxy. I haven't read enough about them to have a preference of one over 
the other. Prior to now, we had talked about a mirrored respository because it 
needed to be downloaded at a different location and then synced to the server. 
Now that we actually have internet access in the warehouse, it probably makes 
more sense to only have a local cache of the packages we need.

One thing to consider, though, is that package upgrades will be downloaded on 
demand rather than proactively. That could mean that patches take longer to 
download than we have time to apply them before we close the warehouse for the 
night. Perhaps we can have a reference box running in a virtual machine that 
can download patches during off hours so they are ready when the warehouse 
opens?

Tony

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