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Re: Easy way to share deb files?



* Raffaele Sandrini (rasa@gmx.ch) [030926 14:28]:
> Hi
> 
> 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?

Install the apt-proxy package.  Have fun =)

good times,
Vineet
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