On Wed, 8 Jun 2005 17:09:22 -0400 Hendrik Boom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Now that I'll be upgrading my lan's server to sarge, I plan also > to install apt-cacher on it, so my other machines won't have to do > as much long-haul net traffic. > > Can I start the woody->sarge upgrade by updating, first, > aptitude and perl (that seems to be conventional wisdom) > then installing sarge's apt-cacher, and then pointing > the sources.list to apt-cacher running on the very machine > that is being upgraded to sarge? Yes. Though I haven't looked closely at the dependencies for apt-cacher - so it may want to download a couple extra packages with apt-cacher. Once the dependencies are in place though, you should be good to go. > In the future, when further updates take place, will apt-cacher > know how to update itself while it's being used to download and > cache its replacement? Yes, this works perfectly in my experience of using apt-cacher for over a year now. (I don't remember exactly how long I've been using it now.) Remember that apt-get doesn't start processing a new package until it is fully downloaded - and it gets the new package from apt-cacher - so apt-cacher will be available until all packages are downloaded and ready to be processed. HTH, Jacob -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
