I have installed Slink on my desktop using apt. It downloaded a whole lot of package files to do this (but dselect, I think, has now deleted them).
Now I have a laptop which needs to be upgraded to Slink. It would appear that I'm going to have to download all these files again! What would be nice is to have the option for apt to build up a partial mirror of the Slink distribution (or any version for that matter), putting each downloaded file in the correct location in a directory tree. Of course it would only be a partial mirror because it would only download those packages which were to be installed. The advantage of this is that I could then use this structure to install from when upgrading my laptop. This solution would be better than the standard mirror solution because this way, only the files needed would be downloaded, saving on disk space and internet bandwidth. My guess is that apt doesn't currently have this feature. Are there any plans to add it? My second best option is to use nfs to symlink the laptop's /var/cache/apt/archives to the desktop's. This might work --- the only problem here is that dselect-apt decides to delete all the files in the cache! How can I turn this off??? Cheers, Mark. _/~~~~~~~~\___/~~~~~~\____________________________________________________ ____/~~\_____/~~\__/~~\__________________________Mark_Phillips____________ ____/~~\_____/[EMAIL PROTECTED] ____/~~\HE___/~~\__/~~\APTAIN_____________________________________________ ____/~~\______/~~~~~~\____________________________________________________ __________________________________________________________________________ "They told me I was gullible ... and I believed them!"