On Sat, 2002-01-19 at 22:16, Rich Rudnick wrote: > On Sat, 2002-01-19 at 21:00, Asura wrote: > >
I hate replying to myself, but after reading David Maze's last post I realized I forgot something important :\ > If I understand correctly, what might work for you is a three step > process I have used occasionally. > > First, ssh in and select the packages you wish with dselect. Exit > dselect. > > Second, use apt-get dselect-upgrade in download only mode (apt-get > dselect-upgrade -d). At this point, you can hang up and go play, while > your work machine downloads the packages. do this as an "at" job, set for a few minutes in the future, and you can log off. > > Third, Sunday night sometime, ssh in again, and run dselect. Go straight > to install, and since the packages are already downloaded and will be > installed from your cache, only a few minutes effort will complete the > installation. > > I hope this is what you're looking for. -- first impressions are bunk (unknown)
