On Mon, 2003-01-06 at 11:58, Dan Jacobson wrote: > Dear Debian Sirs, a few months ago I want to town and my friend made > me 10 cd's: _Sid_ - fsn.hu unofficial i386 Binary (20021010)] > > Now if I go to town again can I say, have him use the "jigdo" > mechanism to make just a few cd's that hold only the changes to sid > since 20021010, avoiding the embarrassment of having him do the whole > job over? > > Or maybe make some kind of custom CD of anything in sid newer than > 20021009? > > It seems any of these would me more trouble than having him burn me a > whole new set. Or maybe I should just keep my mouth shut and not ask > for an update until say 6 months have passed... ah, the luck of the > piddly modem user. (BTW, I would use apt-cdrom on the update CD, that > is no problem, I can handle that.)
Maybe with creative use of ls, grep and "apt-cache show", you could create a diff list between what's on your CDs, and what's currently in sid. Then, you can do a bunch of "wget"s to get the updated packages. -- +------------------------------------------------------------+ | Ron Johnson, Jr. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] | | Jefferson, LA USA http://members.cox.net/ron.l.johnson | | | | "Basically, I got on the plane with a bomb. Basically, I | | tried to ignite it. Basically, yeah, I intended to damage | | the plane." | | RICHARD REID, who tried to blow up American Airlines | | Flight 63 | +------------------------------------------------------------+ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
