Benedict Verheyen, Tue, Sep 23, 2003 at 02:00:50PM +0000: > Hi, > > i have a server and it has a quite extensive sources.list. Now i would > like to make a cron job that does "apt-get update" every so often and > then use that cache for my connected client so i don't have to download > the packages list again and thus use unnecessary bandwidth. > > Ideally this would mean removing the entries in my local clients > sourceslist and have just 1 entry that points to my server's cached > packages list. > Is this possible and how can i do that? apt-cache show apt-proxy > > In the future i plan to make packages of my own scripts. Can i combine > those? I mean putting my packages in the cache of packages on the server > and thus also have them available for the pc's connected to my LAN? > Create an archive of your packages with dpkg-scanpackages or apt-ftparchive and add the archive to the clients sources.list g
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