-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, 11 Feb 2004 00:20:42 +0100 Jan Suchy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Sharing/copying /var/cache/apt/archives is possible. > But how to make apt see all those new packages? > apt-get update does this by fetching package lists > from the internet. In your present solution you do > apt-get update on both machines and that's slow. > I see two solutions for this. > > #1 hack: If you use the same sources.list on both machines > copy package lists between the machines along with > the debs. It should be in /var/cache/apt/pkgcache and > var/cache/apt/srcpkgcache. But I didn't ever try this. > There could be more files that you need sync. > > #2 use apt-proxy. It caches both debs and package lists. > apt-get update is then less painful because it > downloads lists from the internet only on first use. > > You're right that apt-proxy stores all downloaded packages > in the same tree directory structure as debian archives use. > > But there's no need to setup that manually. Apt-proxy builds/ > fills/updates/deletes it all automatically. You just need to > properly configure it. You can check my config at http://abu.ath.cx > if you're interested. well, that's ofcourse right setting up apt-proxy. But I can't just invest my > 3gb of disk space just to mirror. What I think of as a solution is I run apt-get update on both the machines and then download the packages on one of them. Then I only share my /var/cache/apt/archives folder through NFS to the client. Then when I hit apt-get upgrade I hope it would just skip the packages which have already been downloaded. Probably it would only download additional packages required for the other machine. *NOTE* There's only one thing to note that I think, i.e. that if in between the time if the packages change of Debian's site, we'll have to do a re-update and re-download.. Correct me if I've mistaken! rrs - -- Ritesh Raj Sarraf RESEARCHUT (www.researchut.com) Happy GNU/Linux user since 1998 - ------ We are all born mad. Some remain so. -- Samuel Beckett -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFAKmRZ4Rhi6gTxMLwRAlCLAKCgNEugZ7eK3Ht/mFlLJ9KMgXRYegCfbRVl 3HEpNtC95CjwoSqHgdhxZYo= =0crv -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
