Re: having 2 debian installations...
> Hi,
>
> I've got 2 debian installations. Now after some while I updated one of
> it in dselect to the newest packages. This was a 100MB packages
> download from the internet.
>
> After installing the packages I was asked whether the newly downloaded
> package files should be deleted. I answered no in the hope to use them
> to update the other installation.
>
> This is now my question, where are these downloaded packages located
> in the file system and how do I tell the other installation that I
> have these updates?
>
>/var/cache/apt/archives, if you pay close attention apt tells you this when
it
>asks about remving the packages. Just copy the debs to the same dir on the
>other box and apt will only download missing packages or updated ones.
If you do this a lot couldn't you just put /var on a seperate partition and
have both installations share the .debs and wouldnt that resolve having to
copy them over?
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