Re: Quasi-mirror for local net
On Fri, 12 Mar 1999, George Bonser wrote:
> On Fri, 12 Mar 1999, Matthew Sayler wrote:
>
> > Hello,
> >
> > I'm looking for a way to share a set of downloaded .deb files across
> > a network st. they would be accessible to automatic package download.
> > Ideally, I'd just like to export /var/cache/apt but I don't think
> > that will work.. Has anyone done this before?
> >
> > Matt
>
> Yeah, make your own ftp archive, put the packages in there and build your
> own Packages file for it and point the other machines to your archive.
Actually exporting the /var/cache/apt/archive directory -does- work, just
don't mix arches. You do need working nfs locking and I'm not sure how to
set that up (someone email me if the know!)
Jason
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