Re: Sharing .deb archives
On Mon, 2002-08-05 at 20:59, Jacob S. wrote:
> Does anyone know how I could share the archive of downloaded .deb files
> on my computer, with the other 4 debian boxes I have on my internal lan
> at my house? I have a dsl line, so it's not really a big problem to
> download the files multiple times, but it'd still be more convenient,
> especially when trying to upgrade from potato to woody. :-)
I often just rdist or rsync the directories /var/cache/apt/archives (the
downloaded debs) and /var/lib/apt/lists (the Packages files fetched by
atp-get update) from one machine to another.
So update one machine, copy the two directories to the next and run
apt-get dist-upgrade there, and apt-get will notice it already has the
files, do no download.
I had never caused me any problems as the two directories don't contain
any system critical data. They are just caches of stuff pulled from the
net.
--
René Seindal (rene@seindal.dk) http://www.seindal.dk/rene/
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