On Sat, Jun 17, 2000 at 12:29:22AM +0200, Markus Fischer wrote: > On Fri, Jun 16, 2000 at 10:57:01AM -0400, Andrew Sullivan wrote : > > On Fri, Jun 16, 2000 at 04:35:29PM +0200, Markus Fischer wrote: > > > > > I'm running a few servers and workstation in a private network > > > where I work. For security and variuous policy reasons it's not > > > allowed beeing connected to the internet. > > > > Couldn't you just connect one machine, maybe via dial-up, that is _not_ > > connected to your network, and then burn the updated unstable archive on a > > CD-RW say, once a week, and use that as your source? The internal network > > would never actually be connected to the Net. Of course, you're still > > downloading unstable, and could in principle be subject to a trojan attack > > that way, but the chances are pretty low, and are no higher than if you > > connected through your home machine and brought in the full archive every > > week. > > That is of course what I want to do. Actually, there is > no difference if its a dial-up standalone pc at work or my cable > connection at home. > > The problem is: how do I know _which_ packages are new > and which do I have to fetch to update my standalone mirror > (without keeping a second mirror at the dial-up/home-cable > machine).
Run apt-get with the --download-only option. It won't install any packages on your machine, and all the new ones will be in /var/cache/apt/archives. (I think that should work, I've never done it myself.) > > thanks, > Markus > > -- > Markus Fischer, http://josefine.ben.tuwien.ac.at/~mfischer/ > EMail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > PGP Public Key: http://josefine.ben.tuwien.ac.at/~mfischer/C2272BD0.asc > PGP Fingerprint: D3B0 DD4F E12B F911 3CE1 C2B5 D674 B445 C227 2BD0 > - Free Software For A Free World - > -- Pat Mahoney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "If people are good only because they fear punishment, and hope for reward, then we are a sorry lot indeed." -- Albert Einstein
