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

  • From: Tony Germano <tony_germano@xxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <frgeek-michiana@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Sat, 17 Sep 2011 11:04:38 -0400

Not saying it's impossible, but it may be complicated to get a pogoplug to 
request the correct packages since it will not be running the same OS (having 
an ARM processor.)
Tony

Date: Sat, 17 Sep 2011 09:20:35 -0400
From: mikecook@xxxxxxxxxxxx
To: frgeek-michiana@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [frgeek-michiana] Re: Warehouse Report - Sept. 15, 2011



I was thinking about apt-proxy last night when I read Tony's first email. I 
couldn't remember the name so I figured I'd respond when I remembered it. I 
don't think we need the entire repository, most packages probably will never be 
used and will just take up drive space and bandwidth for updates. I hadn't 
thought about the issue of Ubuntu's all to frequent updates not being cached 
until requested and hadn't been even considering whether we would need a system 
running 24/7. Maybe we could use something like a SheevaPlug or a PogoPlug they 
only use about 5W maximum.
-----Original Message-----

From: Tony Germano 

Sent: Sep 17, 2011 7:22 AM

To: frgeek-michiana@xxxxxxxxxxxxx

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









>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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