On Fri, 12 Mar 1999, George Bonser wrote: > On Fri, 12 Mar 1999, Matthew Sayler wrote: > > > Hello, > > > > I'm looking for a way to share a set of downloaded .deb files across > > a network st. they would be accessible to automatic package download. > > Ideally, I'd just like to export /var/cache/apt but I don't think > > that will work.. Has anyone done this before? > > > > Matt > > Yeah, make your own ftp archive, put the packages in there and build your > own Packages file for it and point the other machines to your archive.
Actually exporting the /var/cache/apt/archive directory -does- work, just don't mix arches. You do need working nfs locking and I'm not sure how to set that up (someone email me if the know!) Jason