Tip: Importing your /var/cache/apt/ files to apt-cacher database
Submitted by ggarron on Thu, 05/15/2008 - 14:46.
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Yesterday, I wrote about apt-cacher, and when you first install it, its database is empty, and of course the server where it is installed could have a lot of .deb files, in the /var/log/apt/archives/, so it would be great to use those packages in our new ATP proxy.
To do that we need one of the perl scripts that come with apt-cacher, and that are stored in:
/usr/share/apt-cacher
The right script for this task is: apt-cacher-import.pl , so run:
sudo /usr/share/apt-cacher/apt-cacher-import.pl /var/cache/apt/archives
That is all, now you have all those packages available in your new Proxy server, to save disk space your can then run:
sudo aptitude clean
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