On Sat, Mar 04, 2006 at 12:36:39AM -0500, Mark Fletcher wrote: > I have all the packages downloaded in my /var/cache/apt/archives > directory. I don't want the notebook to have to download them all > again
[...] > After reading the man pages on apt, apt.conf, aptitude etc, and googling > around, here's what I am thinking of doing. First of all, exposing my > desktop's /var/cache/apt/archives as an NFS mount, configuring my > gateway's firewall to prevent anyone mounting it from outside my LAN. You don't need a firewall to do this; /etc/exports suffices. This should be perfectly safe so long as you don't use both machines to apt-get at the same time. If you do, though, one apt-get could try to resume downloading a file currently downloading in another apt-get, with unpredictable results. You could mess around with locking, but there are several robust solutions readily available. Look into the packages apt-cacher apt-proxy and approx. > Mounting this NFS mount on the laptop, let's say at /mnt/aptarchive. > Then, setting APT config option Dir::Cache::archives on the notebook > to point at /mnt/aptarchive If you use NFS, you should just mount directly to /var/cache/apt/archives. That way, having the NFS server down will not tell apt to put files in /mnt. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
