Richard Owlett wrote: > On 01/23/2019 08:53 AM, Pascal Hambourg wrote: >> Le 23/01/2019 à 15:43, Richard Owlett a écrit : >>> >>> 1. If /var/cache/apt/archives/ has the same or later version version >>> of a package, will Synaptic and apt-get automatically use contents of >>> /var/cache/apt/archives/ in preference to downloading whatever is at >>> location specified by sources.list? >> >> Same version : yes. Later version : no. >> >>> 2. If there is no internet connection at the moment, will Synaptic and >>> apt-get use the latest version in /var/cache/apt/archives/ ? >> >> apt-get uses a version in the cache if and only if it matches the >> requested version, regardless of the internet connectivity. >> >> 1) apt decides which version of a package it wants. >> 2) If that package version is present in the cache, it uses it. >> 3) Otherwise, it selects a mirror and downloads it from there. >> > > I may have some re-thinking to do. Due to bandwidth I avoid downloads > whenever possible. Instead I purchase DVD sets. That's no real problem > for the machine whose purpose resembles a typical user's. > > I have a couple of machines set aside for experimentation. The > explicitly have no connectivity to the outside world. My mental image > resembled using the cache contents as an local pseudo-repository. I may > have to create a real one.
Set up a rig as your own mirror and set those machines' sources.list to that mirror? -- |_|O|_| Registered Linux user #585947 |_|_|O| Github: https://github.com/dpurgert |O|O|O| PGP: 05CA 9A50 3F2E 1335 4DC5 4AEE 8E11 DDF3 1279 A281
