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Re: Making one machine an "apt server" for others....



> On Wed, Oct 23, 2002 at 08:05:35PM -0700, Joe Emenaker wrote:
> 
> > 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.

That works.  There are various ways to pull that off.

But you might look into apt-proxy.

  apt-cache show apt-proxy
  apt-get install apt-proxy

I use it and it works quite well.

Bob

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