on Tue, Nov 04, 2003 at 09:07:35PM +1100, Rob Weir (rweir@ertius.org) wrote:
> On Sun, Nov 02, 2003 at 11:16:19AM -0800, Tom said
> > After I do an apt-get upgrade on my desktop, I keep the DEBs I
> > downloaded to use on other machines or when I start over.
> >
> > I find I must have everything I am interested keeping up-to-date on
> > *any* machine must be installed on the desktop (an example is
> > pcmcia-source and pcmcia-cs).
> >
> > Is there a way to make apt-get automatically downloaded newest versions
> > of packages not installed?
>
> No. But have you looked at apt-proxy? Point all your machines at it,
> then it will only download each .deb once, and save it. Every machine
> after the first gets it at local network speed.
...to four decimal places.
Concur: apt-proxy is what you want for this. Using it here, six
systems behind a 56k dialup.
Peace.
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