On Tue, 2006-08-15 at 23:03 +1000, david wrote: > Do the packages in /var/cache/apt/archives represent all the installed > packages on a standard Ubuntu system?
Unless you've removed packages, the contents of /var/cache/apt/archives represent every single package ever installed on that system, regardless of whether a package was subsequently removed, or replaced by an updated version. apt-get has a couple of commands for managing the package cache. apt-get clean will clear out the cache completely. autoclean is a little more intelligent. Check the apt-get man page for details. > Can I use this as input to apt-cacher for the purposes of subsequently > updating another box? Eg, breezy to dapper. I guess you could seed apt-cacher with the contents of one machine's package cache, yeah. But I've never used apt-cacher. :-) -- Pete -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
