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On Saturday 08 October 2005 1:09 pm, Ben Goodger wrote: > Can APT be configured to use NFS repositories? An apt repository is just a directory tree that contains debian packages and index files like Packages.gz, Sources.gz Release etc. that contain cached data from the available packages. Any filesystem that can be used by http:// or ftp:// will do. Each filesystem has it's own advantages - ext2 is by far the most common for this job, ext3 could be used. Apt doesn't need any configuration to do this. > I am looking to build a school's enterprise linux which was originally > going to be built on RHEL until I decided to switch to ubuntu. So why NFS? Ubuntu can use ext2 like any other. The disadvantage with NFS is any internal delays from network round trips. A repository is not private data, it's just as easy to put the entire repository on a box in your DMZ, make that a subdomain under DNS and use the subdomain as the repository name. So instead of www.foo.org which has an internal NFS mount of debian:/opt/packages /opt/tree then accessed via the top level foo.org server (www.foo.org/tree), put the packages on an accessible box and use www.foo.org for the WWW content and www.debian.foo.org for the repository. -- Neil Williams ============= http://www.data-freedom.org/ http://www.nosoftwarepatents.com/ http://www.linux.codehelp.co.uk/
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