[PLUG] setting up a local linux repository question

[Aaron Burt]

On Wed, Sep 15, 2010 at 01:19:29PM -0700, website reader wrote:
> I would appreciate hearing from anyone who has built a network source
> repository server and upgrades their systems via a LAN, and does NOT
> rely upon online updates to speak directly to the client machine.

I do that when I set up a net-install system.  Usually, I set up a basic
install dir using an install CD, and then make a cache of remote network
repos using Squid, apt-cacher-ng or something similar.

I highly recommend caching package repos.