[arch-general] How to cache pacman mirror for LAN

[Takayuki Muranushi]

Thank you Gary, Simon.
Pacserve will be best solution if it works. I'll give it a try.
Also, NFS solution is OK because most of the time I'll run the update
automatically and I'll write a script to handle the timing.

2011/6/5 Simon Schneider <schneida.simon at gmail.com>:
> You can also share the pacman directory /var/cache/pacman/pkg via NFS or
> some other protocol. Whenever a new package is requested, it gets downloaded
> to your login node which stores it for later use in case another client
> needs it. The drawback is, that you can't upgrade two machines at the same
> time, because they would interfere each other. Have a look at:
> https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Network_Shared_Pacman_Cache#Network_shared_pacman_cache
>
> 2011/6/5 Gary Wright <wriggary at gmail.com>
>
>> On Sat, Jun 4, 2011 at 5:32 PM, Takayuki Muranushi <muranushi at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>> > Hello,
>> >
>> > I'm building a computer cluster with about 20 nodes, all of them
>> > running ArchLinux. One of them is the 'login' node connected to the
>> > Internet, other nodes share Internet connection via the login node
>> > being a router.
>> > https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Internet_Share
>> >
>> > Now, when I update the system (pacman -Syu) or install package on all
>> > node, I think it's a bad idea because it will consume the mirror
>> > bandwidth proportional to the number of the nodes. Maybe it's not a
>> > big issue for 20 nodes, but I'd like to learn nevertheless for future
>> > use, that:
>> >
>> > Is there a way to cache the pacman transaction at the login node, so
>> > that the communication between the login node and the mirror is
>> > constant, and the rest of communications only take place within the
>> > LAN?
>> > Is seting up a pacman mirror at the login node is the correct solution?
>> >
>> > Best,
>> >
>> > Takayuki Muranushi
>> >
>>
>> Haven't used it myself, but this [1] might do the trick.
>>
>> [1] http://xyne.archlinux.ca/projects/pacserve/
>>
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