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Re: sneakernet apt



on Tue, Apr 16, 2002, Satelle, StevenX (stevenx.satelle@intel.com) wrote:

> I'm running 2 separate machines which have no connection between each
> other.  One (mach-1) has an always on high speed web connection. The
> other (mach-2) doesn't. Both running Debian-2.2r5. installed from CD.
> I want to download updates on mach-1 and get a copy of /var/cache/apt
> onto mach-2 (via a win2k laptop) . I've being doing this but the only
> way to install stuff is via dpkg -i. Very slow especially when doing
> updates such as installing ximian.  I've looked at things like
> apt-move but that doesn't seem to do what I want.  I would like to be
> able to turn /var/cache/apt into a proper deb source -
> /Debian/dists/main with an auto generated packages.gz

Perhaps apt-zip?

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