Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (2112 mails)

[Joachim Schrod <jschrod@xxxxxxx>]

Amedee Van Gasse wrote:
> j debert schreef:
> > I have two SuSE boxes both running OpenSuSE 11.0. I run two separate
> > updates and download almost all updates twice.
> >
> > Because of limits imposed by ISP's, I am concerned that the typically
> > huge updates will exceed the limits. This month I have had over 12Gb
> > total for both boxes.
> >
> > How can I fetch all the updates required for both boxes once without
> > having to become a repository and download everything--which would far
> > exceed isp's limits. This would probably be some sort of proxy agent
> > that can read the installed database for each box then fetch each
> > package once and only once for both boxes. Is there yet a utility to
> > do that?
>
> So what you need, is something like apt-proxy on Debian, but for
> OpenSuse RPMs? If anyone knows about it, please post it on the list,
> because I'm also interested.

Why can't you share the cache directory via NFS or Samba?

I don't use zypper, but for my apt/smart usage I do this all the 
time; works like a charm.

        Joachim

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Joachim Schrod                          Email: jschrod@xxxxxxx
Roedermark, Germany

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