Sharing pacman cache in same machine between different Arch installs

How may I ask?

This is how I do that!
Download pacman packages into a cachedir located in a flash drive. Package the individual packages with depends in the flash drive such that they will be installed fully.
The cache is then accessed with pacman to install the selected package.
The parameters are:
pacman --cachedir /media/disk/upgrade -Sw (package name(s))
This places the .pkg.tar.gz into /media/disk/upgrade. At this point, gather the elements of the depends and package into a folder with an ID such as open-office1. Difficult to explain for all packages because some are not includiing depends!
Then to install at your convenience,;
pacman -Ud /media/disk/upgrade/open-office1/*.pkg.tar.gz.........
This will install the packages contained in open-office1 at 15-20MB/sec.
This can be portable via the flash device.
Hope it fills your needs.................
EDIT: Normal pacman downloads can still be handled via ...pacman -S package name because the cachedir is not imposed.
EDIT: You could copy the entire /var/cache/pacman/pkg into the cachedir if desired altho the depends may not be available therein , so the method I described may be best.
Last edited by lilsirecho (2008-02-11 22:05:47)

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