On Sat, 17 Jun 2000, Pat Mahoney wrote: > > 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.)
You could read the /usr/share/doc/apt/offline.text.gz file which describes how to do this. Jason
