Re: Sharing apt-gets cache dir

1999-11-06 Thread Brian May
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you write: >I have a shared atp archive working successfully. I too had the >same problem of not being able to do anything with the lock file >through the NFS share. So I assumed that I couldnt get around >this easily so avoided the problem by creating a link from t

Re: Sharing apt-gets cache dir

1999-11-06 Thread John
Hello Peter, I have a shared atp archive working successfully. I too had the same problem of not being able to do anything with the lock file through the NFS share. So I assumed that I couldnt get around this easily so avoided the problem by creating a link from the NFS share back to the local fi

Sharing apt-gets cache dir

1999-11-04 Thread peter karlsson
I thought it be a good idea to share the apt-get cache dir between my computers, so that I need not to re-download each package for each machine that I update. I'm exporting it over NFS, however, I cannot get this to work - it refuses to lock: E: Could not get lock /var/cache/apt/archives/lock - o