Re: Debian VS. Red Hat
Add to that that if you apt-move it afterwards, you can get your own partial upgrade
repository (even on CD)!
Jeff Green wrote:
> kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote:
> >
> > A cronned apt-get upgrade might be a bit much, and I myself only do
> > "apt-get update && apt-get upgrade --download-only". This parks updates
> > in /var/cache/apt/archives, but doesn't install packages until
> > requested manually by me on the command line.
> >
>
> Now this is a good idea (though actually for webservers tthe downloading
> is rarely slow, except for ones in India!!!) I shall try this on a few,
> thanks!
>
> Jeff
>
> > Because Debian packages may require manual intervention at install time
> > (this is a Good Thing, dammit!), this still automates the tedious and
> > slow portions of a system upgrade.
> >
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