Re: having 2 debian installations...

2001-11-15 Thread Christian Groessler
Hi, thanks to all who responded. I successfully updated the other machine without downloading the .debs again... regards, chris

Re: having 2 debian installations...

2001-11-14 Thread Nicholas . Rohozen
> Hi, > > I've got 2 debian installations. Now after some while I updated one of > it in dselect to the newest packages. This was a 100MB packages > download from the internet. > > After installing the packages I was asked whether the newly downloaded > package files should be deleted. I answered n

Re: having 2 debian installations...

2001-11-14 Thread Geoff Beaumont
On Wed, 2001-11-14 at 23:14, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote: > /var/cache/apt/archives, if you pay close attention apt tells you this when it > asks about remving the packages. Just copy the debs to the same dir on the > other box and apt will only download missing packages or updated ones. You could

Re: having 2 debian installations...

2001-11-14 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 14-Nov-2001 Christian Groessler wrote: > Hi, > > I've got 2 debian installations. Now after some while I updated one of > it in dselect to the newest packages. This was a 100MB packages > download from the internet. > > After installing the packages I was asked whether the newly downloaded >

Re: having 2 debian installations...

2001-11-14 Thread Daniel Farnsworth Teichert
Try copying the .deb packages from /var/cache/apt/archives onto the other machine in the same location. Then if you're using apt-get to upgrade, it should see them there automatically. It should tell you when you're about to upgrade that it needs to get 0Kb of data or something. Er, I think that m