* Andrew Perrin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> spake thus: > Folks- > > I have a home setup with a DSL line coming in to one debian box, then two > other debian boxen connecting to it via ipmasq. Each box is set up to do > an apt-get update; apt-get upgrade on a periodic basis for security and > up-to-dateness reasons. > > My question is this: effectively, each time they upgrade, I'm downloading > three copies of each package separately. Is there a relatively easy way to > archive the files locally and have the two boxen behind the ipmasq'ed > computer just get their updates from it?
It is relatively simple to just copy the *.deb's over from one machine to the others. The *.deb's themselves are in /var/cache/apt/archive. If you have the same sources.list on all the three machines, you can just copy /var/lib/apt/lists/*.* over to the other machines in the same directory. Then you can skip the update, just go ahead and run upgrade or dist-upgrade. Regards, Stig -- brautaset.org Registered Linux User 107343
