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Re: Easy way to share deb files?



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.

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