On Tue, 18 Sep 2001, Dave Sherohman wrote: > On Tue, Sep 18, 2001 at 11:17:19AM -0400, Andrew Perrin wrote: > > 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? > > Sure. Here are three: > > - Check out the apt-move package if you want to build your own > partial mirror of the official archives > > - Roll your own archive using dpkg-scanpackages if you don't want > updates to come down automatically > > - Use NFS to export /var/cache/apt to all machines - apt-get update > will run separately on each box, but when it comes time to install > packages, they're already in /var/cache/apt/archives, so they won't > be re-downloaded
Do you know how to to build the Release files? I cannot do a fresh install from my partial mirror because debootstrap barfs on dist/sid/main/Release. Lindsay =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Lindsay Allen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Perth, Western Australia voice +61 8 9316 2486, 0403 272 564 32.0125S 115.8445E Debian Linux =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
