On Fri, Sep 26, 2003 at 11:07:27PM +0200, Raffaele Sandrini wrote: > Hi > > Im looking for an easy method to share debian files. Im running several sid > machines here. I used to upgrade them every week. Till now i did a > dist-upgrade on evey machine wich the downloads all the packages on its own. > All these machines have many identical packages installed. Since APT saves > each deb file it downloads it would be cool to do the upgrade the one machine > and let the others use that one as "source" and try to get all packages from > there and only download packages wich are not avail on the first machine... > Ist this somehow (ev without settuing up a debian mirror) possible? >
I use apt-proxy. In addition to general maintenance, it really speeds up install on a new box to have all the stuff that you have already decided you need held locally. -- Paul E Condon [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
