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Hello everyone,

I have a quick question: is it possible to prevent a repository from synchronizing a specific package?

For context, I have my WAPT server with several packages and four repositories (A, B, C, D) on different clients.

However, some large packages, like Office 365, are only usable by two clients using repositories A and B. The clients using repositories C and D will never need this package, but they synchronize it anyway, which consumes space on their servers (yes, I have very little).

So, my question is: can I tell repositories C and D to synchronize all packages from the main server except for the 32-bit Office package?

WAPT Server version: 2.6.0.17392 Ubuntu 20.04
WAPT Agent version: 2.6.0.17392

Hi Augustin,

Currently, this isn't possible (except by using a synchronization system other than WAPT, such as rsync, where certain files are excluded).

We're currently considering replacing the current synchronization of secondary repositories with on-demand synchronization when the file is requested (essentially a peercache in server mode, which only downloads on demand). However, this mode isn't available yet.

Hello Simon,

thanks for the feedback.

For now, I'll leave it as is, but yes, I'm really looking forward to on-demand synchronization being implemented.

I still have some Windows 10 machines and some brand new, fully Windows 11 fleets, and since the updates are fully synchronized, Windows 10 updates are synchronized to repositories of clients running full Windows 11.

Have a good weekend.