Re: Easy way to share deb files?
On Fri, Sep 26, 2003 at 11:07:27PM +0200, Raffaele Sandrini wrote:
> 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?
>
I use apt-proxy. In addition to general maintenance, it really speeds up install
on a new box to have all the stuff that you have already decided you need held
locally.
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Paul E Condon
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