Re: Bug#29321: apt should cache package files

[Matthias Klose <doko@cs.tu-berlin.de>]

Jason Gunthorpe writes:
 > 
 > On Wed, 11 Nov 1998, Matthias Klose wrote:
 > 
 > > Package: apt
 > > Severity: wishlist
 > > 
 > > It would be nice, if apt could cache package files, so that I fetch them
 > > one time over ppp and then I can install them on several machines.
 > > Currently I copy these files and build a local package file, which is accessed
 > > by the other machines.
 > 
 > I don't see what the problem is..
 > 
 > nfs mount /var/cache/apt/archives and /var/state/apt/lists on all
 > machines and replicate the sources.list. Run apt-get update on one machine
 > and apt-get check on all the others.

thanks!

 > I really don't see what you want here..

but how do I prevent the deletion of the deb files, when upgrading with
dselect's apt method?