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Some of my coworkers want to dabble in grid
computing, so they got themselves about 7 old PC's and they wanted to set them
up.
I put Debian on all of them, but I wanted to be
able to keep them up-to-date without having all 7 hit the package servers. Since
they are all configured the same, I figure, if one of them needs a new package,
then they'll all need it.
So, I got to thinking... why can't machine "A" do a
normal upgrade and save all of its .deb packages. Then, all of the other
machines would have their sources.list file pointed to machine "A" and they'd
just hit *that* machine for their updates.
I know that apt saves its packages in
/var/cache/apt, so that's not a problem. The problem, to me, is in generating
the Packages and Release files. Is there an easy way to do this?
- Joe
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