Diederik de Haas wrote:
On Wednesday 07 November 2012 19:37:30 Richard Owlett wrote:Debian 6.0.5 will be fine for my purposes. I suspect that by the time updating will be relevant for me, enough updates will have be done that purchasing another set of DVDs would be worthwhile. When I say "I DO NOT have good internet connectivity", I mean don't bother considering it functionalGiven your use case I'm not too sure whether apt-cacher-ng is a good fit.
I agree. But reading the documentation of programs I can't use directly often sheds light on the problem I'm trying to solve.
This is quite acceptable as a major motivation is my education
A local mirror using the packages from your DVDs sounds more logical in that case. But I have no experience in setting that up though.
That's the rub ;)