Re: Sharing apt-gets cache dir
Hello Peter,
I have a shared atp archive working successfully. I too had the
same problem of not being able to do anything with the lock file
through the NFS share. So I assumed that I couldnt get around
this easily so avoided the problem by creating a link from the
NFS share back to the local filespace.
An example is always nice, so here goes:
<make neccessary NFS mount, mine is at /nfs/ftp>
cd /var/cache/apt
mv archives old.archives
ln -s /nfs/ftp/apt-cache archives
touch apt-lock
cd archives
ln -s /var/cache/apt/apt-lock lock
cd ..
cp old.archives/*.deb archives
Its a complete cheat, but everything seems to work just fine.
The only thing I havent checked is what happens when I try and
run dselect (or apt) on multiple machines at the same time.
Could be interesting!!!
Hope this helps.
John Stevenson
peter karlsson wrote:
>
> I thought it be a good idea to share the apt-get cache dir between my
> computers, so that I need not to re-download each package for each machine
> that I update. I'm exporting it over NFS, however, I cannot get this to work
> - it refuses to lock:
>
> E: Could not get lock /var/cache/apt/archives/lock - open (13 Access denied)
> E: Unable to lock the download directory
>
> I have it exported like this in /etc/exports:
>
> /var/cache/apt/archives 10.10.10.8(rw,no_root_squash)
>
> Any ideas?
>
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