Re: upgrading multiple machines to 2.1r4
> full mirror. What would be the best way to make sure I can (re)use the
> packages I've downloaded with dselect?
I'd do:
apt-get clean (wipes out all the *.deb files from your package
cache -- /var/cache/apt/archives)
apt-get update
apt-get upgrade (downloads and installs all updated packages)
Then just copy the *.deb files from /var/cache/apt/archives from one
machine to the next, apt-get update, then apt-get upgrade. You'll still
have to do apt-get update via the net for each machine (I don't know of
a way to sync this information and it's probably not very safe to try to
do it by hand), but at least you'll have downloaded the packages only
once.
Chris
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