RE: Using apt offline

2000-05-24 Thread Moore, Paul
From: Pichai Asokan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > I have done precisely this. That's good to know. Looks like I may have guessed right... > However, I ran the apt-get update on all the machines. I do not know > exactly how to duplicate that on other machines. I'm guessing that I copy /var/state/a

Re: Using apt offline

2000-05-24 Thread Dave Sherohman
Moore, Paul said: > The only difficulty I have is with step (2) - is it enough to transfer the > /var/cache/apt/archives directory? If not, what is the best way? Almost, but not quite. I share /var/cache/apt over NFS here and it works, provided that I do an apt-get update on each machine. If you

RE: Using apt offline

2000-05-24 Thread Moore, Paul
From: Christian Surchi > On Wed, May 24, 2000 at 01:57:31PM +0100, Moore, Paul wrote: > > > 1. apt-get dist-upgrade --download-only on one machine > > 2. Transfer the downloaded files to all machines > > 3. apt-get dist-upgrade --no-download on all the machines. > > try apt-zip! That seems to w

Re: Using apt offline

2000-05-24 Thread Christian Surchi
On Wed, May 24, 2000 at 01:57:31PM +0100, Moore, Paul wrote: > 1. apt-get dist-upgrade --download-only on one machine > 2. Transfer the downloaded files to all machines > 3. apt-get dist-upgrade --no-download on all the machines. try apt-zip! bye Christian