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

[Steven Z]

There is one other tool that is interesting.  squid-deb-proxy looks interesting
and has a minimal setup.  Chef and Ruppet have a little setup over head.  There
is one other project that has very little setup and looks easy to use.  it also
has a web front end.  It is called Apt-Cacher NG.  I will read up a  little  on
which is easiest on the user.  I think both look pretty easy  on  the  ultimate
user.

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steveZ



On Tue, May 26, 2015 at 06:34:08PM -0700, Steven Z wrote:
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> Resent
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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
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