Re: Non-mail idea (was Re: idea for a new debian mailserver?)
"Colin R. Telmer" <telmerco@qed.econ.queensu.ca> writes:
> So as not to be completely negative, it seems to be that with a little
> creative script writing, a mirror script could be set up to run at night
> which compares the current packages on your system to the ones available
> in the archive. It could then download the required packages so that they
> are waiting to install the next morning.
Right, that's dftp (more or less). At the very least, dftp would make
a good starting point if it didn't do everyting you wanted...
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