Mark Brown said: > On Wed, Dec 29, 1999 at 08:06:39PM -0700, Robert L. Harris wrote: > > > and 15hrs per box. Since the -d downloads, can I take the files being > > downloaded for box1, tar them up, copy and untar to box[234] and then > > just "apt-get install" from the single downloads? I'd hate to spend > > Yes - you want to copy the contents of /var/cache/apt/archives about.
Or NFS mount it. I have a real /var/cache/apt on my file server which is exported via NFS, so it holds the latest version of packages installed on any of my machines. I still have to apt-get update separately for each box, but that generally doesn't take too long. (I haven't dug into apt far enough to figure out how to make a single apt-get update work for all machines without having to worry about them getting confused about who's got what installed. But most of my updates are to a single machine anyhow, so I would gain little to nothing by doing that anyhow.) -- Geek Code 3.1: GCS d- s+: a- C++ UL++$ P+>+++ L++>++++ E- W--(++) N+ o+ !K w---$ O M- !V PS+ PE Y+ PGP t 5++ X+ R++ tv- b++ DI++++ D G e* h+ r++ y+
