On Sat, 03 Sep 2005 07:57, Douglas Soares de Andrade wrote: > Thats the problem... I just have two workstations, no laptop here. The i > keep my workstation updated, and when it is friday i burn all packages > in /var/cache/pacman/pkg/ in a cd and the copy all these packages in my > machine at home. > > When i was using slackware i was doing the same process above and then i > just executed a upgradepkg *.tgz so, it updates all the new packages and > dont install the ones that was not on my home system. > > But when i do a pacman -U it updates all the packages and installs all the > packages that was not on my home system. > > Why is install the packages that is not on my home system ? If pacman -U is > for Update it should not install any file, for definition.
This my be a little bit of a hacky way to do it but if you copy those packages that you have from your workstation at university to the /var/cache/pacman/pkg/ directory on your workstation at home. Then connect to the internet and do a pacman -Syu it should just update the packages that are installed on your system. Since the packages are already found in the cache directory it won't need to download them (except for packages which are on your home workstation and not the one at university). This is similar to what I do at home with a NFS shared cache directory. HTH hads -- Calm down, it's *____only* ones and zeroes. _______________________________________________ arch mailing list [email protected] http://www.archlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/arch
