Roby wrote: > After upgrading my first machine, I copy /var/cache/apt/archives/*.deb > to the second and then apt-get update followed by apt-get dist-upgrade. > I continue the process for the remaining boxen. This works fine. > > apt-proxy looks interesting too, although in my case the machines are > all peers - no local network server.
Then apt-zeroconf might suit you better. It uses avahi to discover other machines and to check whether they already have the packages that it needs. If no machine has the package or no machine is found, it just downloads the package from the regular sources instead. It worked fine on my machines for a while but I had some problems since avahi was updated, so I am waiting for the next release before I try again. You can get it from here: http://trac.phidev.org/trac/wiki/AptZeroconf Cheers, Mike -- Michael Hansen - http://www.pfna.de/ Monheim / Germany -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
