Re: Keeping unstable up2date without internet connection ?
On Sun, Jun 18, 2000 at 09:22:28AM +0200, Tomasz Wegrzanowski wrote :
> On Sun, Jun 18, 2000 at 12:51:54AM +0200, Markus Fischer wrote:
> > My problem now: How can I keep up to date with my choosen
> > unstable machines without burning a full unstable snapshot every
> > week or so ?
> >
> > I would like to see a way to find out when I am e.g. at home
> > (with my internet connection) which packages are new compared to
> > my package tree I have at work. So i can (hopefully automatically
> > ?) download them and take them with me on my zip drive.
>
> What about :
>
> on notnetted machines:
> -> dpkg -l | perl -ne '@f=split;print $f[1]," "' >pkg_$(hostname)
> then:
> -> cat pkg_* | sort | uniq >pkg_all
> and:
> -> apt-get update
> -> apt_get install -d $(cat pkg_all)
> -> cp -a /var/cache/apt /mnt/zip
The problem is that I don't want to have all the packages
installed on my home machine (which still runs slink btw ;) from
unstable. Can I independently find out which packages I need to
download ?
kind regards,
Markus
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