On Mon, May 17, 2010 at 7:35 PM, C Anthony Risinger <anthony@extof.me> wrote:
On May 17, 2010, at 12:22 PM, Gregory Eric Sanderson <gzou2000@gmail.com> wrote:
On Mon, May 17, 2010 at 10:45 AM, Rogutės Sparnuotos <rogutes@googlemail.co m
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Andre Osku Schmidt (2010-05-16 13:33):
2010/5/16 Ng Oon-Ee <ngoonee@gmail.com>:
On Sat, 2010-05-15 at 23:47 +0200, Andre "Osku" Schmidt wrote:
2010/5/15 Ng Oon-Ee <ngoonee@gmail.com>: > Check out 'pkgd'
thanks, works nicely!
only couple issues that would be nice if it could do too (or already does, and i just didn't find out how)
- not usable from arch installer. i assume i cant use it as proxy setting what is asked in the installer. but maybe i can somehow else use it from the installer?
You would need (AFAIK) to install some packages first to start using it.
- if the package is not found on the pkgd server, it will be loaded from internet to the client machine. is there a way to tell the pkgd server to download it and serve it to the client ?
Not that I'm aware off. Talk to Xyne.
Perhaps you'd just want to set up your own mirror. There's projects for that as well in the AUR, just search.
do you mean a general mirroring tool ? as i didn't found anything pkg specific mirror tool...
and wouldn't a mirror tool require my server to have ALL core/extra/community packages ? how big are those repos ? <...>
I don't really remember your initial question, but I use one package directory for 3 computers by simply having a central /var/cache/ pacman, which I then mount read-write with samba. To use it from the installer, you would have to install 'smbclient' after booting.
That solution is also mentioned on the wiki, but I see 2 disadvatages to mounting /var/cache/pacman through the network. 1. If you're on a laptop and not at home, you don't have access to your packages, and If you want to install packages anyway you have to manually unmount, install, and remove the packages from the directory to to cause problems for when it will be remounted. 2. Although rare, if or have frequent network connectivity problems (for example, your connection goes dead in the middle of copying a file) then it becomes a hassle
This is the same conclusion I came to, and why I started the "pacproxy" app... My sshfs mount would be down without me knowing; I just don't think it's a very good/elegant solution.
I intended pacproxy to be an apt-proxy clone, with ABS "auto repository" support, and foriegn ABS support (so I could have separate build machines, and be able to broadcast their ABS tree as an independent repo) right now though, it works well for simple proxying and caching, and is a viable solution to the OP's problem.
Perhaps we could make it more feature complete, and include it in the official repos as a more comprehensive solution to fickle network mounting.
Else I will finish it eventually :-)
C Anthony
hi, this sounds perfect! http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=87115 could you put it in a VCS (like gitorious.org) ? and a more verbose howto ? like: - does the code in "how to use" box at the forum post go in the pacproxy machine configs ? - what/where do i set/use this in the client(s) ? - whats /archlinux dir ? should i create it, how ? - can't i use /var/cache/pacman/pkg/ ? - does this work with the arch installer ? these may be "stupid" questions, but i'm still pretty new to Arch way of things. cheers .andre