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Create a local 'apt' repository for Sun Java 6 and/or Oracle Java 7 packages.
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Local repository for multiple servers #43

Closed charlwentzel closed 12 years ago

charlwentzel commented 12 years ago

On our LAN there are several virtual servers that require Sun Java. Is it possible to use this technique to set up a local repository on a server which can be accessed by several servers on the LAN. This will avoid installing the local repository for every machine and save a lot of time and bandwidth as well.

flexiondotorg commented 12 years ago

Hi,

I won't be adding this functionality to the script because there a many ways to implement this, many of which won't suite most people. But, you're right, once a build has been completed on one host you could use just about any file serving network protocol (http, ftp, nfs, etc) to share access to multiple hosts.

Regards, Martin.

charlwentzel commented 12 years ago

Hi Martin

Thanks for coming back to me so soon. Is it possible to share it with apt as if it was a repository? In other words could I add a link a references (similar to a PPA or repository) in the sources.list file of another machine and let them access it directly from there?

I usually add an apt-cacher-ng proxy server on my networks to reduces Internet load for updated a bunch of machines. Could I follow a similar approach here.

My apologies for asking these basic questions, but I don't have extensive knowledge of the inner workings of sources and repositories.

Regards Charl

On 09/07/2012 13:23, Martin Wimpress wrote:

Hi,

I won't be adding this functionality to the script because there a many ways to implement this, many of which won't suite most people. But, you're right, once a build has been completed on one host you could use just about any file serving network protocol (http, ftp, nfs, etc) to share access to multiple hosts.

Regards, Martin.

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