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

[Henrik Andersson]

I use a central server for simply caching with NFS (as in the wiki
basicly) for five machines at home. And it works great and not having
to add other packages just feels more simple in my imho. Was unaware
about not being able to use the cache simultaneously though and has
never been an issue for me. Will have to check that out, thanks for
the info! If you were to write a script for that maybe it could be
handy to put in the wiki?


Cheers,

Henrik Andersson


2011/6/5 Takayuki Muranushi <muranushi at gmail.com>:
> 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/
>>>
>>
>