On Fri, Sep 10, 1999 at 04:57:25PM -0500, Dave Sherohman wrote: > I've got a couple machine here that I want to have share their lists of > available packages and downloaded package binaries. To this end, I've had > one of them share its /var/cache/apt directory and NFS mounted it on the > other. > > Unfortunately, this doesn't quite work. When I update the list of available > packages on one machine, the other one doesn't see the update. > > Based on the apt-cache man page, I suspect that the missing piece may be in > /var/log/dpkg, but I would expect sharing that directory would confuse the > two boxes regarding who has what installed. (They are not intended to have > the same sets of installed packages, I just don't care to be redownloading > files that overlap between the two.)
I think you can share /var/cache/apt and /var/state/apt directories. After running apt-get update on one machine you should start apt-get check on second. Some hints you can find in /usr/doc/apt/offline.html. Mirek
