Peter L. Schroeder said: > What is a useful configuration in apt.conf and/or anywhere else > to avoid downloading packages twice if I run > apt-get first on one and then on the other box ?
Although it may not be the most correct way of doing it, here's what I did: 1) Have one machine share /var/cache/apt via NFS. NFS-mount it as the other machine's /var/cache/apt. They're now sharing a local package cache. 2) After having dselect install packages, tell it not to delete the downloaded packages. (If you're using apt-get directly, just don't call apt-get clean.) I still have to download lists of available packages separately for each machine, but that's pretty trivial, IMO. When I go to install a package, it first looks in /var/cache/apt to see if the package is already there, so it only gets downloaded by the first machine to install it and the others grab the local copy. (Unless a new version has become available, of course.)
