Home based repository .... how

ben-arch · 2010-03-07 05:51:48

I'm planning on installing Arch on my daughter's computer.

So now I'll have 2 computers at my home, with an (almost) identical Arch installation. I'm upgrading Arch once a week, and I see no reason why I sould create another burden on the public repositories.

My question :
Is it possible to create "mini" repositiries on my computer, that will be synchronized with one of the public Arch repositories, but will include ONLY packages that are installed on my computer.
If this is possible, how can I configure my daughter's system so that it will get all the packages it can from my computer ?

Ben

Pierre · 2010-03-07 05:55:50

I didn't try it but you might want to have a look at http://xyne.archlinux.ca/info/pkgd

stryder · 2010-03-07 07:35:34

I have several arch installations on a few boxes which are similar as well. I have 1 partition which I share via samba and /var/cache/pacman/pkg is a soft link to a folder on that partition. Other arch systems are also similarly linked to that folder. The packages need to be downloaded once only.

ben-arch · 2010-03-07 16:48:19

Pierre, stryder - thank you

lilsirecho · 2010-03-07 17:58:45

Using a flash drive, the repo caould be made via pacman
;

pacman --cachedir /dev/sdx  -Syw

(sdx is the flash device)
This would provide the packages which can then be loaded via pacman -Ud on either machine or even more machines......

tomk · 2010-03-07 18:09:08

More details on stryder's suggestion, which I would also recommend: http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Pac … cman_cache

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