[Nottingham] apt-walkabout or similar

[Cam]

Michael

> How do other members distribute updates for their apt-based distributions? 
> Ideally I'd like to download all updates on a machine with access to 
> plentiful bandwidth, store them on some removable media (preferably with 
> changelogs too), and provide updates to similarly configured machines with 
> less or no bandwidth. I've just stumbled across apt-walkabout and I'm 
> currently studying the manpages. I'm looking for "standard practices" if 
> there are any!

A simple approach worked for me with yum, I don't know if it's 
applicable to apt-get

I made /var/cache/yum a nfs mounted directory. Now everyone shares the 
NFS cache.

Accessing a cache on NFS is a little slower than disk, but the benefit 
is a given header or rpm is downloaded only once.

-Cam

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