Jason Gunthorpe writes: > > On Wed, 11 Nov 1998, Matthias Klose wrote: > > > Package: apt > > Severity: wishlist > > > > It would be nice, if apt could cache package files, so that I fetch them > > one time over ppp and then I can install them on several machines. > > Currently I copy these files and build a local package file, which is > > accessed > > by the other machines. > > I don't see what the problem is.. > > nfs mount /var/cache/apt/archives and /var/state/apt/lists on all > machines and replicate the sources.list. Run apt-get update on one machine > and apt-get check on all the others.
thanks! > I really don't see what you want here.. but how do I prevent the deletion of the deb files, when upgrading with dselect's apt method?
