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Re: [LUG] Debian help needed



On Tue, Feb 11, 2003 at 05:48:13PM +0000, Theo Zourzouvillys wrote:
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> On Tuesday 11 February 2003 8:37 am, Mark Evans wrote:
> > 1) Setting up a local mirror, including the security
> > updates.
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> take a look at apt-proxy.

I'll have a look, anyway to speed the initial operation
up using the ISOs?

> You can use rsync://ftp.uk.debian.org/ or rsync://rsync.mirror.anlx.net/ (same 

Assuming our super fast connection won't block rsync, because
the people who set things up assume that every school is 
running a specific MS Windows configuration...

> thing) for debian and debian-non-US, and grab secuirty updates from 
> security.debian.org using either ftp or http.
> 
> then point all clients on the network to use the server apt-proxy is installed 
> on...

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