Re: local deb mirror

On Wed, 2007-07-02 at 21:08 +1100, Serg B. wrote:

Can anybody suggest any pros and cons of having a local (private) deb
mirror for a small home (~6 machines) network?


I have three machines and use a local mirror. Specifically I use the
"debmirror" package from universe.

The pros are:

* You download the repositories once at Internet speeds then
distribute internally at LAN speeds. This means that a big
update (like the recent libc++ one) is spread around your
machines far more quickly and at lower external bandwidth costs.
* If your Internet feed goes down (this is a common occurrence
here in China -- YMMV), you can still add packages to your local
machines.
* It makes system reinstallations (like I just had to do with an
Edgy "upgrade" -- though I'm not sure that word is properly
applied) go far faster.


The cons are:

* It's not exactly disk space cheap. A full mirror costs close to
200GB. My partial mirror (Edgy and Dapper, i386 only) takes up
most of my 80GB external drive.
* That first download? Is a doozy! (Earthquakes in Taiwan that
cut international feeds don't help any either, let me tell
you....)

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