Setting up a local repository with debmirror

Posted by jhansonxi on May 18, 2008 10:03 PM EDT
Stubborn Tech Problem Solving; By jhansonxi
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I set up a lot of PCs and while I have a fast 10Mbs Internet connection I wanted to utilize my faster internal network bandwidth better. With a new distro release it's less important as most of what I need is on the CD but as updates are released I end up downloading increasing amounts of data for each install. I've been doing lazy tricks like copying /var/cache/apt/archives to a network-shared directory but it's sloppy and multiple versions of packages accumulate. Setting up local repository was the answer for me.

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