2010/5/15 Ng Oon-Ee :

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? - 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 ?

2010/5/16 Ng Oon-Ee :

On Sat, 2010-05-15 at 23:47 +0200, Andre "Osku" Schmidt wrote:

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2010/5/15 Ng Oon-Ee :

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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.

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- 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 ? it seems there is (yet) no pkg-proxy tool (ala apt-proxy[0]) that could be used from installer and on. also the proxy should get new files only when a client needs it... i assume Xyne is the author of pkgd, ill contact him/her later and ask if these features are possible to implement in pkgd. but for now, ill just get packages (net)install wants from internet, and use pkgd after that (and add pkgs that clients want manually to the pkgd server) cheers .andre [0] http://apt-proxy.sourceforge.net/

On Mon, May 17, 2010 at 10:45 AM, Rogutės Sparnuotos

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Andre Osku Schmidt (2010-05-16 13:33):

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2010/5/16 Ng Oon-Ee :

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On Sat, 2010-05-15 at 23:47 +0200, Andre "Osku" Schmidt wrote:

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2010/5/15 Ng Oon-Ee :

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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.

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- 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

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On Mon, May 17, 2010 at 7:35 PM, C Anthony Risinger wrote:

On May 17, 2010, at 12:22 PM, Gregory Eric Sanderson wrote:

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On Mon, May 17, 2010 at 10:45 AM, Rogutės Sparnuotos

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Andre Osku Schmidt (2010-05-16 13:33):

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2010/5/16 Ng Oon-Ee :

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On Sat, 2010-05-15 at 23:47 +0200, Andre "Osku" Schmidt wrote:

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2010/5/15 Ng Oon-Ee : > 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

Hi,

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- 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?

I'm doing something like this for a couple of centos machines... using apache as a caching reverse proxy (also serving kickstart files). # the usual servername, logfile, etc... LoadModule proxy_http_module /usr/lib/apache2/modules/mod_proxy_http.so LoadModule disk_cache_module /usr/lib/apache2/modules/mod_disk_cache.so CacheRoot /home/sites/ks/cache CacheEnable disk / CacheDirLevels 2 CacheDirLength 8 CacheMaxFileSize 2097152000 ProxyRequests off ProxyPass /centos/ http://ftp.halifax.rwth-aachen.de/centos/ </VirtualHost> it should just work with something like: ProxyPass /archlinux/ http://some.mirror/path_to/archlinux/ point your installers there and you should be fine I know you said squid is to much hassle... maybe your more comfortable with apache ;) Regards, Wolfgang

On May 16, 2010, at 4:32 AM, Ng Oon-Ee wrote:

On Sat, 2010-05-15 at 23:47 +0200, Andre "Osku" Schmidt wrote:

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2010/5/15 Ng Oon-Ee :

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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.

I wrote a Piece of Junk app to do exactly this... Serve packages from a cache or retrieve from the net and serve to client. I used it to install custom stuff during install (btrfs-progs and friends in my case). Works well enough for one time type stuff. Search forums for "pacproxy". C Anthony