Personally, I've always had enough local disk to mirror the entire Debian distribution, so updating isn't a problem.
I have a few co-workers and friends that have installed the official CD but they don't have any other local deb files. IE non-free and the 1.3.1.r1 to 1.3.1.r6 updates. Searching the Changelog directories for updated packages (r1 to r6) and installing them with dpkg is a bit tedious. I imagine dpkg-ftp works well in the case of getting non-free packages from a remote site. Is there a way to point dselect at local or remote directories such that it will "merge" in the new and updated packages? Dselect would then show them in the "Newly Available" and "Updated Packages" sections of the selection screen. Looking at dpkg-ftp, it kinda looks like it might do all this (by fetching the complete Packages file?) but there's no DOC that explains what's really going on. Wouldn't you loose track of what files had to be retrieved remotely and which ones where actually on your local CD? ...RickM... -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
