[Tech] [Discussion] Intro / notes on the new Ascend setup

[Steven Z]

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On Tue, May 26, 2015 at 06:29:54PM -0700, Steven Z wrote:
> 
> 
> hey Guys,
> 
> Sorry if I am responding incorrectly.  But I thought I should get something
> out.  There is a cool tool for what you guys are doing.  I think  Scott  is
> right that for the current needs Squid is a good choice for the momement. I
> think what you should look at though is 
> 
> sudo apt-get install squid-deb-proxy avahi-utils
> 
> There is a special little add on for doing package proxying and caching.  I
> think this is what you are looking for and would involved the least  amount
> of changes to the current setup.
> 
> A longer term setup would be something like puppet or chef.  They  sort  of
> work a lot in this area.  But for straight apt proxing for a small setup  I
> think squid-deb-proxy is what you are looking for.
> 
> from
> SteveZ
> 
> On Tue, May 26, 2015 at 05:13:32PM -0700, Christian Einfeldt wrote:
> >    Hi Steve,
> >    Thanks for taking my call just now to talk about Partimus.A  This is the
> >    email to which I referred in our conversation.A  Elizabeth Krumbach Joseph
> >    is very good at managing machines (and other stuff I don't understand) for
> >    HP, but she had this discreet question about Squid on the Partimus tech
> >    mailing list.A  Partimus has several mailing lists that you could join, if
> >    you want.A  I would recommend starting just with the tech mailing list.A 
> >    We don't have a whole lot of traffic on these lists, but the tech list
> >    seems to be the list were most of the actual work gets done, and therefore
> >    might be the most interesting to someone at your relatively high skill
> >    level.
> >    http://partimus.org/contact.php
> >    Thanks again, Steve!A 
> >    ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> >    From: Elizabeth K. Joseph <lyz at partimus.org>
> >    Date: Tue, May 26, 2015 at 10:43 AM
> >    Subject: Re: [Tech] [Discussion] Intro / notes on the new Ascend setup
> >    To: Scott DuBois <rhcom.linux at gmail.com>
> >    Cc: David Sterry <davesterry at gmail.com>, "tech at lists.partimus.org"
> >    <tech at lists.partimus.org>
> > 
> >    Dropping -discussion from this email, because it's just a tech thing.
> >    On Mon, May 25, 2015 at 8:59 PM, Scott DuBois <rhcom.linux at gmail.com>
> >    wrote:
> >    > On Mon, May 25, 2015 at 02:13:50PM -0700, David Sterry wrote:
> >    >> * Caching proxy server, no filtering needed
> >    >
> >    > Steve Z was talking Squid for this. I've never used it myself but from
> >    reading,
> >    > it looks like a good move.
> > 
> >    Not sure if Steve is on this list, but if it's helpful, here are the
> >    things I needed to add to my /etc/squid3/squid.conf in the
> >    refresh_pattern section to get it to cache .deb packages so we can do
> >    all of our desktop upgrades without downloading the packages over and
> >    over:
> > 
> >    refresh_pattern ^ftp:A  A  A  A 1440A  A  20% 10080
> >    refresh_pattern ^gopher:A  A  1440A  A  0%A  1440
> >    refresh_pattern -i (/cgi-bin/|\?) 0 0%A  0
> >    refresh_pattern (Release|Packages(.gz)*)$A  A  A  0A  A  A  A 20%A  A 
> >    A 2880
> >    refresh_pattern .A  A  A  A 0A  A 20% 4320
> > 
> >    Squid won't cache them by default because they're big and it tends to
> >    assume big downloads are one-offs and big files will take up a lot of
> >    space in the cache.
> >    --
> >    Elizabeth Krumbach Joseph || Lyz || pleia2
> >    http://www.partimus.org
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> >    --
> >    Christian Einfeldt