On Mon, Apr 23, 2001 at 01:47:20PM -0700, Cory Petkovsek wrote:
> I have not tried this, but I've thought about it.
>
> In your /var/cache/apt (I think) you have a packages.<something> with some
> .debs in another directory.
>
> What if you setup a webserver on that box, then configured /var/cache/apt as
> a virtual directory. This way when a client does an apt-get update, (after
> adding your webserver to the /etc/apt/sources.list) it reads your
> packages.<something> to see what upgrades are available.
>
> Not guaranteed to work, but perhaps worth a shot. There's probably a
> document somewhere detailing exactly how to do what you want. After all,
> the debian way does work well.
>
Won't work at all. You won't get the Packages.gz files on your local
system, so clients won't know what packages are available on the server.
If you just go and download the Packages.gz files, that won't work either,
because that tells clients to look in places like
dists/potato/main/binary-i386/graphics/.
apt-move is all you need.
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