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I wish there were a simple and easy way to P2P my pacman updates. I have several Arch machines/VMs that all need to download a gigabyte of updates at the same t

I wish there were a simple and easy way to P2P my pacman updates. I have several Arch machines/VMs that all need to download a gigabyte of updates at the same time. This wastes not only my time and bandwidth, but adds extra load and bandwidth on the mirror. Why can't I have pacman sync with one of my other computers? Even if there's a different set of packages, the core OS is the same and can share packages with other machines. I did look briefly into hosting a proper pacman mirror locally, but it seemed like way too much effort to save 10 minutes a month.

dTal 1y ago
Just update one then rsync the package cache across? Or mount it over NFS for a hands-off solution. Or hack something up with inotify.
yndoendo 1y ago
Arch Wiki to the rescue. https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Package_proxy_cache# https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Package_proxy_cache# Currently using the dkarhttpd route with rsync. Everything is stored in a custom directory so that older version can be retained. Pacoloco looks interesting.