I share the apt caches (/var/state/apt/lists and /var/cache/apt/archives) between hosts by making symbolic links to nfs mounted directories.
This works on kernel 2.0.36, but on 2.2.0pre1 and 2.2.0pre4 I see this: fratercula# apt-get install blt8.0 Updating package status cache...done Checking system integrity...ok The following NEW packages will be installed: blt8.0 0 packages upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 145 not upgraded. Need to get 0b/494k of archives. After unpacking 1150k will be used. E: Could not get lock ../lock - open (37 No locks available) E: Couldn't lock the Output dir, /var/cache/apt/archives/ another process is using it Apparently, NFS locking does not work. Probably a kernel bug, but I report it to you anyway. Jon
