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dr_te_z

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From: Zoetermeer, the Netherlands

Registered: 2006-12-06

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Does my plan have a change to work?

At home I've got a laptop with Arch, at the office I'm convicted to XP machines... however, 1 of them could be rebuilt to dual-boot with Arch.
At the office I've got limited internet access so the challange will be to keep my new dual-boot-Arch up-to-date.

I'm wondering: is it possible to put the required files from my laptop on a usb-disk and take that to the office. Then upgrade the 2nd-Arch fed with the files on the usb-disk instead of internet? I realize that the 2nd-Arch must be a subset of the 1st_Arch. I cannot install/upgrade packages which on the 2nd which are not already installed on the 1st.
But besides that: can it be done? Is there a nice "howto" already out there?

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Stythys

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From: SF Bay Area

Registered: 2008-05-18

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Re: Does my plan have a change to work?

you could always just copy the needed packages from /var/cache/pacman

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Allan

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From: Brisbane, AU

Registered: 2007-06-09

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Re: Does my plan have a change to work?

As Stythys said, copying your /var/cache/pacman from your home computer to your office would work if you use mostly the same programs on both computers.

Otherwise, you can use "pacman -Sup" to print the uris of the files you need to download.

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Stythys

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From: SF Bay Area

Registered: 2008-05-18

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Re: Does my plan have a change to work?

ah right! forgot about the -Sup =P

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