On Sat, 24 Jul 2010 11:05:40 +0530, Anil Seth <seth.a...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 23 July 2010 19:51, Vivek Kapoor <subs...@exain.com> wrote: >> >> Wouldn't it create difficulty/corruption if two machines are trying to >> download a package at the same time? I think the caching tools are >> designed >> to prevent that. > > Yes, it can have issues. For small networks, it is more of an > occasional/potential nuisance. For my personal home needs it was not > an issue.
There's a minor inconvenience in this approach even if we ignore the simultaneous downloading of files part. You would still have to update the package information (apt-get update) from Ubuntu repositories on all the machines as that data isn't in /var/cache/apt/archives :-) It's 6MB+ from what I can recall (if I exclude the sources). Regards Vivek Kapoor http://exain.com _______________________________________________ Ilugd mailing list Ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd
