On Sun, 30 Nov 2003 19:35:06 +0000, RichardA wrote: > On Tue, 25 Nov 2003 17:16:57 +0100, Andreas Janssen > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Like urmpi, apt uses a local cache to save downloaded packages. You >> can find them in /var/cache/apt/archives. If you reinstall you can >> copy the files you saved from the cache back and after updating the >> package lists, apt will automatically use them instead of downloading >> them again, at least if there isn't a newer version on the server. You >> can also delete obsolete files from the cache using the auoclean >> function of apt-get. > > Got that. It'll save me a little time, and the mirror some traffic. > >> You might also want to take a look at apt-move (you can get package >> descriptions from <http://packages.debian.org>, but it seems to be >> down right now). > > Still down. > > Richard
You can also see package descriptions by using apt-cache or dpkg-www. This from testing: $ apt-cache show apt-move Package: apt-move Priority: optional Section: admin Installed-Size: 208 Maintainer: Herbert Xu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Architecture: i386 Version: 4.2.19 Depends: bc, coreutils, dash | ash, libapt-pkg-libc6.3-5-3.3, libc6 (>= 2.3.2-1), libgcc1 (>= 1:3.3.1-1), libstdc++5 (>= 1:3.3.1-1) Recommends: apt Filename: pool/main/a/apt-move/apt-move_4.2.19_i386.deb Size: 47380 MD5sum: cc7ed9f29293617b7a0ff4fad4fbaded Description: Maintain Debian packages in a package pool apt-move is used to move a collection of Debian package files into a proper archive hierarchy as is used in the official Debian archive. It is intended as a tool to help manage the apt-get(8) file cache, but could be configured to work with any collection of Debian packages. . Running apt-move periodically will assist in managing the resulting partial mirror by optionally removing obsolete packages, and creating valid local Packages.gz files. It can also build a partial or complete local mirror of a Debian binary distribution (including an ``installed-packages only'' mirror). -- ....................paul "The average lifespan of a Web page today is 100 days. This is no way to run a culture." Internet Archive Board Chairman -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
