Re: portable mirror?
On Thu, Feb 07, 2002 at 11:45:34AM -0800, JC Portlock wrote:
> With Woody changing as rapidly as it is, the update/upgrades are killing
> me. I'm looking for the best program to allow me to take a laptop to
> where I can get some bandwidth, download what I need for my home system
> onto the laptop, and then update/upgrade from the laptop to the desktop.
> (My home system is dialup only).
apt-zip was designed for exactly this. (think "ZIP disk" 100MB)
Instead of downloading, apt-zip creates a BASH script that you can take
wherever you want, which then downloads the needed files (wget needed on
target machine), and another BASH script which installs the stuff.
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