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Re: Suggestion: apt-network



On Sun, 3 Oct 1999, Lalo Martins wrote:

> Would it be useful to have some way for apt machines to
> communicate? For example, a method in sources.list giving the
> address of some other Debian machine, so when my apt wants to
> fetch some package, it first queries all other Debian machines
> on the local net if someone already got that one in their caches?

It's called 'nfs'. Use it to mount a common /var/cache/apt/archives on all
the machines and APT will do the right thing

Jason


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