Have you looked at apt-move perchance? I ended up finding out about it AFTER I had already written a few Perl scripts to locally mirror sid for me (and had download about 2 GB of data), but I'm sure it could prove useful to you if you haven't gone to these extremes yet. :) (I keep 3 computers updated with all of the latest sid updates, so 4.5 GB of disk space was a small price to pay for not having to re-download all the updates 3 times.) -Alex On Sun, 2002-02-17 at 22:46, Tom Cook wrote: > I have also had similar thoughts. One solution is to nfs mount > /var/cache/apt/archives from the first machine as > /var/cache/apt/archives on the second machine. Then when apt checks for > a package in its archives it finds it already there, and you only need > to download each .deb once for each machine. > > Any other method (ie. by adding /var/cache/apt/archive to sources.list > by file:/ or ftp:/) requires you to build a Packages file in that > directory. > > Tom > > Bill Moseley wrote: > > > > I'm sure this is a FAQ, so URLs are welcome. > > > > I'm going from Potato -> Sid (over and over, to learn about installing). > > I'm using the diskette boot method and then a network install. > > > > Boot, install Potato base system. > > apt-get update / apt-get dist-upgrade > > > > update sources.list and repeat for Woody, and then for Sid. > > > > Seems to work, but I'm not sure if that's the "right" or fastest path to > > Sid or not. > > > > I'll be doing this again on another machine. Is there a way to use the > > .deb files in /var/cache/apt/archives for a new install to save the network > > time? > > > > I looked at using "deb file:" in sources.list, but that doesn't seem right. > > > > Thanks, > > -- > > Bill Moseley > > mailto:moseley@hank.org > > > > -- > > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-request@lists.debian.org > > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmaster@lists.debian.org > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-request@lists.debian.org > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmaster@lists.debian.org >
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