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Re: mirroring security.debian.org?



On Fri, 26 Jan 2001, Ron Rademaker wrote:

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> I guess you could make a crontab running 'apt-get update' and 'apt-get -d
> - -y upgrade', running that in times you have some bandwidth will get all
> the update, but won't install them. You can now use ftp or something to
> get the packages to the other machines (or make you
> /var/cache/apt/archives apt-get-able for you local network).
> The downside of this approach would be that you won't get any security
> updates of packages not installed on the machine with the crontab. 

Hi,  
 ever considered apt-proxy, it does what this is trying to achive.

[RicV]



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