[tools] mrepo on a low bandwidth connection

[Hristo Benev]

Ashish Shukla wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I want to know if 'mrepo' is suitable for low bandwidth connections i.e. those users
> who don't want to mirror complete repositories. The similar kind of application for
> Debian is 'apt-cacher'. Whenever any client requests comes to 'apt-cacher' it simply checks
> if package is in the cache, serve it else download it. So, the client who downloads the
> packages first will suffer some delay (since downloading from the main repository), rest
> of users won't notice any delay (since package is already downloaded).
>
> apt-cacher
> http://www.nick-andrew.net/projects/apt-cacher/
>
> So does mrepo also works in this way ?
>
> I've not tried it yet.
>
> Thanks
> Ashish Shukla
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As far as I know mrepo does not work in this way.

It creates a local mirror of on or several repositories.
So if you have more than one system it is not required to transfer any
package more than once.
It is not required that you are connected to internet to do this, if you
have broadband elsewhere you can copy repo to usb drive and transfer it
to other location without i-net. (this requires modification into scripts)

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