Updating Debian home system from machine connected to network
As the pretty longish subject already indicates, I would like to allow
my users (including myself ;-) ) to update there home system from our
Debian machines which are connected to the internet.
The scheme we currently use works as follows:
1) At home, copy your whole /var/lib/dpkg tree to a Zip Disk
2) At Institute, mount Zip Disk, make /var/lib/dpkg link to /zip/dpkg
and with dselect update
This works but of course is far from ideal for obvious reasons (i. e.
the second step). So, I checked out '--admindir=' for dselect but that
did not work as expected. I can't be more precise at the moment because
I do not exactly know what is acually happening. One point is simply
that the package list isn't updated when I use something like 'dselect
--admindir=/zip/dpkg' and, consequently, I can't update anything. So my
question is: What am I doing wrong with dselect or is there another
program suited for this task.
Many thanks in advanc!
Regards,
Andree
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