wantilles
July 3rd, 2005, 11:08 AM
I have 3 PCs at home connected via ethernet TCP-IP LAN.
PC-3 is a x86 machine running 24/7 as a file server with nfs & samba exports (it runs Gentoo Linux & the /usr/portage directory is placed in a separate partition and shared via nfs).
The other two are running Ubuntu (and one of them is running Gentoo also).
I would like to do the same for the package lists & the packages themselves for Ubuntu in order to be able to update both of the other two PCs by downloading only once lists & packages.
Questions:
1. Where does Synaptic / apt-get store the package list files?
2. Where does Synaptic / apt-get store the packages themselves;
3. Is there a configuration file present to instruct them where to find package lists & packages?
4. The other two PCs are of different architectures (PC-1 -> amd64, PC-2 -> x86). Since Ubuntu is a binary distro (and not a source one like Gentoo), I assume that I will need separate package lists & packages for each architecture?
PC-3 is a x86 machine running 24/7 as a file server with nfs & samba exports (it runs Gentoo Linux & the /usr/portage directory is placed in a separate partition and shared via nfs).
The other two are running Ubuntu (and one of them is running Gentoo also).
I would like to do the same for the package lists & the packages themselves for Ubuntu in order to be able to update both of the other two PCs by downloading only once lists & packages.
Questions:
1. Where does Synaptic / apt-get store the package list files?
2. Where does Synaptic / apt-get store the packages themselves;
3. Is there a configuration file present to instruct them where to find package lists & packages?
4. The other two PCs are of different architectures (PC-1 -> amd64, PC-2 -> x86). Since Ubuntu is a binary distro (and not a source one like Gentoo), I assume that I will need separate package lists & packages for each architecture?