On Fri, Sep 26, 2003 at 11:07:27PM +0200, Raffaele Sandrini wrote: > Im looking for an easy method to share debian files. Im running several sid > machines here. I used to upgrade them every week. Till now i did a > dist-upgrade on evey machine wich the downloads all the packages on its own. > All these machines have many identical packages installed. Since APT saves > each deb file it downloads it would be cool to do the upgrade the one machine > and let the others use that one as "source" and try to get all packages from > there and only download packages wich are not avail on the first machine... > Ist this somehow (ev without settuing up a debian mirror) possible? apt-mirror is one way. I prefer to use a caching HTTP proxy, like squid, which makes it completely transparent. -- Dave Carrigan Seattle, WA, USA dave@rudedog.org | http://www.rudedog.org/ | ICQ:161669680 UNIX-Apache-Perl-Linux-Firewalls-LDAP-C-C++-DNS-PalmOS-PostgreSQL-MySQL Dave is currently listening to Sheryl Crow - Home (Sheryl Crow)
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