On Thu, May 03, 2001 at 08:58:01PM +0200, Harald Dunkel wrote: > > > > What about stable? Removing the stable Packages file during an update > > would make it impossible to do a network install. > > > Not impossible. But the client would have to wait till the *.deb files have > been mirrored completely and the new Package files are in place again.
Impossible during an update, I should have said. > Probably you haven't made the experience yet, what happens during the upgrade > over a small ISDN line (which is _not_ free here in Germany, even if its a > local call). Downloading the Package files takes about 4 minutes. If I do an > upgrade once per week, then I have to download (lets say) 50 MBytes or 150 > packages, which takes about 2 hours. Currently I have no way to check whether > all *.deb files are available on the server, i.e. I have to wait up to 2 > hours for an error message. Note that ISDN is billed per-minute in the US also. What I have done here is to learn the mirror cycle, and set up my cron job to update each day after I am reasonably sure that the mirror update has completed. Here (EDT), that is about 18:00. -- - mdz
