Hello Kenneth Power (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote:
> Note: I am not subscribed. If possible, CC to this address > > Recently I lost my home connection to the Internet, leaving my three > SID machines stranded. At work I have access to an OK connection, and > am allowed to use it for personal use after hours (hello, cron-apt). > There is one machine at work, a small test server, running Debian SID, > that performs nightly updates. What I want to do is use this machine > to download updates for my home machines, which I can burn to CDs and > take home. You could for example get the Packages files for the sources of your home machines, place them in /var/lib/apt/lists. If the server and the clients use the same sources, you could get the contents of /var/lib/apt/lists from the server and copy it to the clients. If you still have the possibility to use some connection at home (even if it is a slow one that is not usable for package downloads), you could still use it to download the package list files. They are not that big. Next you run apt-get update and apt-get --print-uris upgrade on the clients. This will give you a list of files you need. Download them at work, and copy the files to /var/cache/apt/archives on the clients. Run apt-get upgrade again. No new packages will be installed (except for dependency reasons, if you use apt-get dist-upgrade). > p.s. Apologies if Outlook sends garbage with this message. Work > prescribed software and all that. If you can, get the OE quote fix: <http://home.in.tum.de/~jain/software/oe-quotefix/> > [bla bla] Maybe you could do something against this disclaimer. It's really annoying. best regards Andreas Janssen -- Andreas Janssen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> PGP-Key-ID: 0xDC801674 Registered Linux User #267976 http://www.andreas-janssen.de/debian-tipps.html -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
