-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Tuesday 16 April 2002 15:38, Satelle, StevenX wrote: > I'm running 2 separate machines which have no connection between each > other. One (mach-1) has an always on high speed web connection. The other > (mach-2) doesn't. Both running Debian-2.2r5. installed from CD. I want to > download updates on mach-1 and get a copy of /var/cache/apt onto mach-2 > (via a win2k laptop) . I've being doing this but the only way to install > stuff is via dpkg -i. Very slow especially when doing updates such as > installing ximian. I've looked at things like apt-move but that doesn't > seem to do what I want. I would like to be able to turn /var/cache/apt into > a proper deb source - /Debian/dists/main with an auto generated packages.gz > > Does anyone know if this is possible?
What about apt-zip ? --> man apt-zip It's not exactly what you wanted, but solves the problem :-) _____________________________________________ Daniel Faller Fakultaet fuer Physik Abt. Honerkamp Albert-Ludwigs-Universitaet Freiburg Tel.: 0761-203-5875 Fax.: 0761-203-5967 e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] URL: http://webber.physik.uni-freiburg.de/~fallerd PGP-Key: http://pgp.mit.edu/ -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE8vEp8tW1j248en+YRAplnAJ9A6AUVrF5uiE6VoAYMxVami4eTsQCeLi13 jgAzDg0il9ebXFqSu7hrnqY= =Gwwe -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]