Mark Phillips <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I have installed Slink on my desktop using apt.... 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!
The simplest way to avoid multiple downloads is to use a caching proxy (for example, with Apache's mod_proxy) with a sufficiently large cache. Then, subsequent requests will be fetched from the cache. (*) apt already knows how to use HTTP proxies (just set your http_proxy environment variable appropriately). -ccwf * The only downside is if you fetch Debian packages from multiple mirrors. In that case, a simple proxy cache configuration will wind up downloading and caching a package multiple times if you fetch the same package from multiple mirrors. If this concerns you, Apache::Gateway can be used to fix this problem by implementing what is effectively a URN-hierarchy for the Debian packages.
