Re: reutilizing downloaded packages

2004-02-11 Thread Ritesh Raj Sarraf
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, 11 Feb 2004 11:55:14 -0600 "Jacob S." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > hat's what Jan was saying. Apt-proxy should not use any more disk space > than you already are by sharing your /var/cache/apt/archives folder. > Apt-proxy will actually save yo

Re: reutilizing downloaded packages

2004-02-11 Thread Jacob S.
On Wed, 11 Feb 2004 22:50:25 +0530 Ritesh Raj Sarraf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Wed, 11 Feb 2004 00:20:42 +0100 > Jan Suchy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > #2 use apt-proxy. It caches both debs and package lists. > > apt-get update is t

Re: reutilizing downloaded packages

2004-02-11 Thread Ritesh Raj Sarraf
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, 11 Feb 2004 00:20:42 +0100 Jan Suchy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Sharing/copying /var/cache/apt/archives is possible. > But how to make apt see all those new packages? > apt-get update does this by fetching package lists > from the internet.

Re: reutilizing downloaded packages

2004-02-10 Thread Jan Suchy
Ritesh Raj Sarraf wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, 10 Feb 2004 14:47:35 -0600 "Jacob S." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Have you tried apt-proxy? If so, what prompted you to try the exported directory instead? My understanding of apt-proxy was that it only downloaded the ne

Re: reutilizing downloaded packages

2004-02-10 Thread patrick
On Tue, 2004-02-10 at 15:19, Ritesh Raj Sarraf wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > hi all, > i've two machines upon which i run sarge. since i've got a low speed connection > it's really painful for an update, but i do apply updates periodically. > My both machines run

Re: reutilizing downloaded packages

2004-02-10 Thread Ritesh Raj Sarraf
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, 10 Feb 2004 14:47:35 -0600 "Jacob S." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Have you tried apt-proxy? If so, what prompted you to try the exported > directory instead? My understanding of apt-proxy was that it only > downloaded the needed packages as t

Re: reutilizing downloaded packages

2004-02-10 Thread Jan Suchy
Ritesh Raj Sarraf wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 hi all, i've two machines upon which i run sarge. since i've got a low speed connection it's really painful for an update, but i do apply updates periodically. My both machines run sarge, so i don't like the pain to have pack

Re: reutilizing downloaded packages

2004-02-10 Thread Jacob S.
On Wed, 11 Feb 2004 01:49:47 +0530 Ritesh Raj Sarraf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > But i want to get rid of this. Well, plz don't suggest me to set up a > mirror. I just am thinking to export the archives directory to my > other machine (with ofcourse rw permissions) and run apt-get on each > machi