Ben Lutgens wrote: >On Fri, Dec 31, 1999 at 04:49:59PM +1100, Frank Copeland wrote: >> If the boxes are networked together, you can easily set up your own partial >> mirror and install from that. Once you have upgraded box #1, use apt-move to >> create a partial mirror from the .debs you downloaded, and set up a >> web/ftp/NFS server to make the mirror available to the other boxes. Then >> when you upgrade the other boxes, add box #1 to their /etc/apt/sources.list >> as the *first* (or only) source.
>ouldn't you manually copy the contents of /var/cache/apt/whateverthehellitis >or mount the original box's /var/cache/apt/ dir via nfs? Since you are couching that as a question, I assume you haven't actually tried to do it that way. And my answer would be: I don't know. If you ever try it, let us all know how it goes. I do know that apt-move does the job, without me needing to rummage about in the guts of the package management system. Frank -- Please don't CC: me. I read the list.