On Tue, 2002-04-16 at 14:38, Satelle, StevenX wrote: > I'm running 2 separate machines which have no connection between each other. > One (mach-1) has an always on high speed web connection. The other (mach-2) > doesn't. Both running Debian-2.2r5. installed from CD. I want to download > updates on mach-1 and get a copy of /var/cache/apt onto mach-2 (via a win2k > laptop) . I've being doing this but the only way to install stuff is via > dpkg -i. Very slow especially when doing updates such as installing ximian. > I've looked at things like apt-move but that doesn't seem to do what I want. > I would like to be able to turn /var/cache/apt into a proper deb source - > /Debian/dists/main with an auto generated packages.gz
The easiest way (and what I do sometimes) is to simply copy the contents of /var/cache/apt/archives from one machine to the other. When the second machine runs apt-get upgrade, it uses the files from the cache. Apt-move would do the job if you (rightly) consider .../archives as a temporary store. When the updates are known to work, run "apt-move update" and your local mirror of updates and additions gets added too. Very handy to burn onto CD now and again for upgrading later. Ross -- Ross Burton mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] diary: http://advogato.org/person/RossBurton PGP Fingerprint: 1A21 F5B0 D8D0 CFE3 81D4 E25A 2D09 E447 D0B4 33DF -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]