Andrea Vettorello <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 18/04/2001 (21:44) : > Preben Randhol wrote: Now you could copy the packages in > "/var/cache/apt/archives" like the above method or you could put it > wherever you like in your filesystem (in your home or under /usr/local > is a wiser choice), and following what is written in the doc, tell apt > where to fetch them: > > apt-get -o > dir::cache::archives="the_path_where_you_put_your_packages" > dist-upgrade > > (in this case you will probably need to create a directory called > "partial", as i said before).
I'll try this again and see it it works, perhaps it didn't work because I had run apt-get check earlier or sth. > Keep in mind that sid is fast changing, sometimes a version of a > package exist only for few hours, so it could happen sometimes some > package is missing... =) Ah :-) I'm upgrading to testing on my offline, I just have some unstable packages as I need them. I tried once to upgrade to sid and then I had to reinstall potato again to get the system up... *dangerous* escpecially with off-line computers, just don't do it if you are not prepared that you can break your whole system. Thanks for your help. -- Preben Randhol ---------------------- http://www.pvv.org/~randhol/ -- +---+ "There was, I think, never any reason to believe in any innate | ! | superiority of the male, except his superior muscle." +---+ -- Bertrand Russell, Ideas That Have Harmed Mankind (1950)
