Post A8qEZPVv0ZFpl72pd2 by rfox@mastodon.technology
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 (DIR) Post #A8qEZPVv0ZFpl72pd2 by rfox@mastodon.technology
       2021-07-01T10:05:32Z
       
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       I run manjaro on both my laptop and desktop, and today I realised that I can just rsync my pacman cache to each other (via my server) to mean that I don't download stuff more than once
       
 (DIR) Post #A8qEaW3GBcKSKDAQ2S by 15154.vidak@awkward.company
       2021-07-01T10:08:01.652072Z
       
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       @rfox yay! something similar is done with guix (:
       
 (DIR) Post #A8qEutYoUT1N1odx4K by rfox@mastodon.technology
       2021-07-01T10:11:24Z
       
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       @vidak oh nice, yeah it's one of those things that I went "why didn't I think of this sooner?"reading the arch wiki, it seems like it's a common thing for people to mount a server's cache at /var/cache/pacman, do their pacman installations/updates and then unmount it
       
 (DIR) Post #A8qF0xwD819KLGTwjw by rfox@mastodon.technology
       2021-07-01T10:12:08Z
       
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       @vidak I prefer the rsync method though - less messing around with making sure the cache folder is clean, and it's something I can just stick in my crontab(s)
       
 (DIR) Post #A8qF0yNVUWz3hvFkHo by 15154.vidak@awkward.company
       2021-07-01T10:12:48.204449Z
       
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       @rfox yeah i have been known to use rsync instead of more ‘official’ methods for synchronising data xD
       
 (DIR) Post #A8qFCwuokuVqe6XpDs by rfox@mastodon.technology
       2021-07-01T10:13:33Z
       
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       @vidak it's a simple tool that does what it says on the tin. hard to fault it!