Apt Backup Question

[Matt Zimmerman]

On Sun, Jan 02, 2005 at 06:19:14PM +0200, Simon Taplin wrote:

> I'm backing up my apt cache and list of files in the apt repositories for
> if I need to reformat my machine or install more machines. By backing up
> the list of files in the repositories, is apt smart enough to figure out
> that security updates have not been installed on the new machine even
> through they had been installed on the old machine?

What are you trying to accomplish?  It's generally not useful to back up the
apt cache, because it is just that (a cache), and its contents can be easily
restored from an Ubuntu CD or network archive.

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 - mdz