I wish there were a simple and easy way to P2P my pacman updates. I have several Arch machines/VMs that all need to download a gigabyte of updates at the same time.
This wastes not only my time and bandwidth, but adds extra load and bandwidth on the mirror. Why can't I have pacman sync with one of my other computers? Even if there's a different set of packages, the core OS is the same and can share packages with other machines.
I did look briefly into hosting a proper pacman mirror locally, but it seemed like way too much effort to save 10 minutes a month.
Currently using the dkarhttpd route with rsync. Everything is stored in a custom directory so that older version can be retained. Pacoloco looks interesting.
This wastes not only my time and bandwidth, but adds extra load and bandwidth on the mirror. Why can't I have pacman sync with one of my other computers? Even if there's a different set of packages, the core OS is the same and can share packages with other machines.
I did look briefly into hosting a proper pacman mirror locally, but it seemed like way too much effort to save 10 minutes a month.