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From: Michael Shigorin <mike@altlinux.org>
To: community-en@lists.altlinux.org
Subject: Re: [Comm-en] Using RPM cache on a second ALT-Linux system
Date: Tue, 2 Aug 2022 09:35:01 +0300
Message-ID: <20220802063501.GH14163@imap.altlinux.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <8c535761-e12c-a05c-c95f-c99638861075@chorusgrove.site>

On Mon, Aug 01, 2022 at 09:07:13PM -0600, Chorus Grove wrote:
> I have limited bandwidth and I would like to know how to use
> the RPM cache, which I have on one PC with ALT Linux, on
> another PC with the same version of ALT Linux installed.
> Can anyone give me some advice on how to do this, if possible?

You can just rsync /var/cache/apt/archives/ between the systems
-- if you don't "--delete" then these will even sum up.

This can be mediated with a flashdive or portable HDD too.

> This way, if I upgrade one PC, I can then use those packages on
> the other PC without having to download them a second time.

If both PCs are on the same network, running caching proxy
for apt might be preferable -- here's a page in Russian:

http://altlinux.org/Apt/NginxAsCache

here's Yandex translation:

http://translated.turbopages.org/proxy_u/ru-en.en.b4a1abe2-62e8c573-5b942cb1-74722d776562/https/www.altlinux.org/Apt/NginxAsCache

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  reply	other threads:[~2022-08-02  6:35 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-08-02  3:07 Chorus Grove
2022-08-02  6:35 ` Michael Shigorin [this message]
2022-08-02 16:25   ` Chorus Grove
2022-08-02 16:46     ` Chorus Grove
2022-08-02 18:23       ` Michael Shigorin
2022-08-02 21:00     ` Chorus Grove

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