Re: Manually getting security updates
On Thu, May 08, 2003 at 02:18:42PM +1000, Andrew Pollock wrote:
> [1] it's the manual acquisition back in the NOC that has me a bit stumped
> as how to achieve. I want to use our apt-proxy and I would have thought
> that apt-get would be the way to go, however if you try to do an "apt-get
> -d package" on a package that's already up to date locally (and you don't
> already have the .deb in /var/cache/apt/archives) there's no way to get
> apt-get to just download it.
>
> debget seems to not be what I want, it doesn't appear to consult a local
> Packages file, it wants to pop off and check out an FTP site, which isn't
> feasible from our NOC. I really want something APT aware.
Have you tried debget from the debian-goodies package, rather than the
one in the package of the same name?
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Colin Watson [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]
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