Hi!

Em Sex 02 Set 2005 23:03, Hadley Rich escreveu:
> 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).

Yep, this is what i do when 56k is avaliable to me, but in this month i will 
be without telephone in home because im moving.

Anyway, thanks, appear that pacman -F will solve my needs :)


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