On Thu, Jan 01, 2004 at 12:48:38PM -0800, Bill Moseley said > This old topic again... > > I'm not really interested in creating a local hierarchy and maintaining > another set of sources on my machines, but I would like a system where > when a I do a dist-upgrade that before fetching the remote package it > first checks another source for the .deb. In other words for a given > foo.deb file before fetching from, say, http://http.us.debian.org (or > any source), it first tries http://mylocalmachine/some/path/foo.deb > where the prefix "http://mylocalmachine/some/path/"; is used for every > package. apt-proxy? It'll give you the package from disk if you have the requested version, or download it if you don't. > BTW -- IIRC, someone posted a way to trim /var/cache/apt/archives to the > most current one (or two) versions and purge the rest. Anyone remember > that? "apt-get autoclean" will remove all but the currently installed version from there. -- Rob Weir <rweir@ertius.org> | mlspam@ertius.org | Do I look like I want a CC? Words of the day: MD2 India genetic electronic surveillance kilderkin attack
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