On Tue, 19 May 2009, Ólafur Jens Sigurðsson wrote:
On Mon, May 18, 2009 at 01:51:45PM +0200, Raffaele Morelli wrote:
Hi you all,
I have 3 debian boxes (two i386 and one amd64) which are not connected to
the network so I usually do upgrades by downloading weekly generated dvd iso
images, burning images to a dvd-rw and running apt-cdrom add && apt-upgrade.
By 'not connected' do you mean not even connected to internal netwok ?
They may not be connected to the internet but are they internally
connected in a private network ?
My question is: can I fool apt in order to avoid burning dvd-rw each week?
Yes. You can mount the new DVD in a location and export this location to
be visible via http interface of one of the machines and then use
apt-get update and apt-get distupgrade to upgrade to the new packages.
I am not lazy but I do this regularly and burning two dvd-iso for different
archs sometimes makes me crazy because of errors, dvd's failures or data
corruption.
Any suggestion is appreciated.
Have you thought about using a USB pen drive to do this
instead of DVD, would think the pen drive was a bit more
reliable (or an external hd with USB interface)
Oli
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