On Fri, Mar 01, 2002 at 03:26:38PM +0200, Danie Roux wrote: > I have two Debian PC's. Both unstable, both with the basically the same > packages installed. I want to share the packages I've downloaded with > the other one.
> So I want to export /var/cache/apt and /var/lib/apt. And then have the > same sources.list. > > Would this work? What is the complications of this? Is there and easier > way? (/var/lib/apt? Is that new? I don't see it on my system...) It works, I've done it before. Just share /var/cache/apt and you'll only need to download the packages once, but you still need to run apt-get update and make your package selections separately on each machine. -- When we reduce our own liberties to stop terrorism, the terrorists have already won. - reverius Innocence is no protection when governments go bad. - Tom Swiss
