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On Thu, Oct 30, 2008 at 10:02 PM, Andrew Joakimsen <joakimsen@gmail.com> wrote:
On Thu, Oct 30, 2008 at 7:01 PM, j debert <jdebert@garlic.com> wrote:
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?
I think the Squid Proxy Server would work, but I have never tested it.
Sorry for the flood of messages. I think my post was a little confusing -- I have used the Squid proxy server and it does work, I have just never tested it for downloading openSUSE updatates -- so I am not 100% certain it will reduce your bandwidth usage as you desire, but in theory it should. You might have to increase the default cache size and cache object setting to insure the larger updates are cached by it. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org