Re: Making new installations

[Adam Aube <aaube01@baker.edu>]

Ross Boylan wrote:

> Sorry, I was unclear.  There's only one box involved, with different
> partitions.   Still, perhaps apt-proxy will offer some clues.
> 
> Ideally, I could just point all my versions of the OS at the same apt
> files (at least if they are approximatelly similar versions of apt),
> but I don't know if that's safe or feasible.

/var/cache/apt is just downloaded packages - the package state info is
under /var/lib/dpkg. You should be able to share files in /var/cache/apt
without problems.

Adam