Re: apt-move question/problem

[brian moore <bem@cmc.net>]

On Fri, Jan 19, 2001 at 10:51:38AM -0500, David B . Harris wrote:
> To quote John Covici <covici@ccs.covici.com>,
> # Hi.  I have two machines and I would like to avoid downloading the
> # same debian packages for each one since I have a slow connection.  I
> # want to use apt-move to make a mirror out of one machine and use it
> # for both machines to avoid duplicate downloads.
> # 
> # I did get it working (sort of), but I want to mirror both the unstable
> # and the unstable/non-us distributions -- can I do this or is there a
> # better way to go about this?
> 
> I had the same issue, but all I did was export the
> /var/cache/apt/archives/ through NFS, and then the other machine would
> mount it as their own. Pretty simple, and it seems to work. Everything
> was then shared.

I do the same thing... sorta.  I use apt-move to keep a mini mirror of
the packages I use that is available to the other machines.

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