[ubuntu-za] add repo

[frans]

On 12/02/17 01:20, Hannes Coetzee wrote:
>
> On 16/02/2012 18:31, Miles wrote:
>> <--SNIP-->
>> I find it hard to believe that if, on a clean install. one copys the
>> whole /var/cache/apt/archives from a working machine or local repo that
>> the simple command like sudo apt-get update doesn look whats in your
>> archives till it has first gone online to see whats inna sky. there must
>> be a way to make update see whats available already on your pc?
>>
> The reason why that won't work is because apt stores a list of the 
> available packages in /var/cache/apt/pkgcache.bin and 
> /var/cache/apt/srcpkgcache.bin when you run apt-get update. If you do 
> a fresh install the list of available packages in those files will be 
> different from the available packages on your old machine. In theory I 
> suppose you could copy those two files as well to the new machine and 
> it should work but I've never tried it. It might be worth testing.
>
Do so with caution though I've seen some machines where that shortcut 
were followed...lots of broken packages and no way to fix it. its better 
to use apt-cacher or just update after you coppied the apt folder's files.
> Hannes
>

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