On Tue, Jan 07, 2003 at 03:20:20AM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > 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.
What I did when I was in the same situation was : apt-get update # a few megabytes apt-get dist-upgrade --print-uris -y > file remove every line up to 'Need to get ...' cut the first field after that (the url of the file) get those packages with wget -i file and put the on a cd or laptop copy the packages to /var/cache/apt/archives apt-get dist-upgrade -u This worked rather well for me, although I seem to remember that sometimes it wanted to download some more packages. Frank > > -- > +------------------------------------------------------------+ > | 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] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
