>IIRC when I had done the Debian repository @ the Chippewa warehouse, it was like 200g....
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>Richard
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>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
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> 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
