update locally

[Craig Szymanski]

----- "antonello facchetti" <antonello.facchetti at alice.it> wrote:
> In my edubuntu 7.04 lab I've got some network bandwidth problems when
> 
> the machines are updating accessing the internet at the same time.
> 
> I'd like to set up a sort of local mirror  of the repositories  so
> that 
> the updating  could be done locally.
> 
> Is there any howto somewhere  to do this?
I use apt-cacher. When setting this up I read this article...
http://www.debuntu.org/how-to-set-up-a-repository-cache-with-apt-cacher

On the clients I have my /etc/apt/sources.list look something like this putting in the host name or ip of the apt-cacher machine...
# Ubuntu supported packages (packages, GPG key: 437D05B5)
deb http://LocalApt-CacherHere:3142/us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ gutsy-security universe main multiverse restricted
deb http://LocalApt-CacherHere:3142/us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ gutsy-updates universe main multiverse restricted
deb http://LocalApt-CacherHere:3142/us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ gutsy-backports universe main multiverse restricted
deb http://LocalApt-CacherHere:3142/us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ gutsy universe main multiverse restricted

> 
> TIA
> Antonello
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Thanks,
Craig


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