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Re: Preventing apt from deleting cached .deb files on network

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On Thu, 19 May 2011 17:31:13 +0100, jon <jonhobley@gmail.com> wrote:
> I am using Debian on my network, and /var/cache/apt/archives is shared 
> across all machines on the network.

That sounds kind of dangerous to me.


> When I install a package using apt or dselect, the package is only 
> downloaded once. Other computers can install the same package without
> having to download again.

Maybe you should look at apt-cacher or apt-cacher-ng.  Use them to set 
up one machine as a cache and have the others download through it.


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Preventing apt from deleting cached .deb files on network jon <jonhobley@gmail.com> - 2011-05-19 17:31 +0100
  Re: Preventing apt from deleting cached .deb files on network Bob Hauck <postmaster@avalanche.org> - 2011-05-22 11:59 -0400
    Re: Preventing apt from deleting cached .deb files on network Mark Hobley <markhobley@yahoo.donottypethisbit.co> - 2011-05-22 16:48 +0000
  Re: Preventing apt from deleting cached .deb files on network Mark Hobley <markhobley@yahoo.donottypethisbit.co> - 2011-05-22 17:02 +0000
    Re: Preventing apt from deleting cached .deb files on network Chris Davies <chris-usenet@roaima.co.uk> - 2011-05-22 20:53 +0100
      Re: Preventing apt from deleting cached .deb files on network Mark Hobley <markhobley@yahoo.donottypethisbit.co> - 2011-05-22 22:22 +0000
        Re: Preventing apt from deleting cached .deb files on network Chris Davies <chris-usenet@roaima.co.uk> - 2011-05-23 10:59 +0100

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