David Rosenstrauch wrote: > David C. Rankin wrote: > > If I want to clone my package selection to another box, is there a > > better way to do it other than just parsing the files in > > /var/cache/pacman/pkg to generate a list to feed to pacman after > > install on the second box? > > One option is to have the first box serve as an Arch package mirror for > the rest of the boxes. i.e., box #1's mirrorlist file points to an > external Arch mirror, box #'s 2 through n's mirrorlist files point to > box #1. I've implemented 2 ways of caching packages in my LAN for saving bandwidth: One, by running a squid on a box, with a cache_dir size of around 1 GB and a maximum_object_size large enough to accommodate huge packages like openoffice. The rest of my archboxen use the squid box as a proxy (note: the mirrorlist servers order needs to be the same everywhere). This way, if a package is downloaded once, it will be cached for the rest to download at speeds over 6 MB/s :-) The downside is that I end up having the same packages occupying disk space in many places and if I neglect to update a machine for some time, the packages expire from the squid cache. Two, by mounting the /var/cache/pacman/pkg directory of the masterbox with sshfs at the local /var/cache/pacman/pkg before pacman install operations. Pacman happily finds most packages already in place and only downloads the ones missing. Method number two is mirrorlist/proxy agnostic and has become my favorite, especially since I've started using the powerpill/aria2 combination. -- ##### # ##### ####### ##### # ##### "I find your lack of faith disturbing."
