Re: Potato Snapshot

[brian moore <bem@cmc.net>]

On Wed, Feb 16, 2000 at 02:08:33PM -0800, Tam, Steve wrote:
> Is there a practical way of downloading or obtaining a snapshot of potato
> given the shear size of the binary-i386 tree and the constant update of the
> packages?  By the time I finish downloading all the packages, the Packages
> file is already out of date.  
> 
> One solution is to have a utility (Windows based?) that can create the file
> Packages based on what actually exist in the local binary-i386 directory. 

Windows based?  Why on earth would you want that?

> Any thoughts?

apt-get install apt-move

'apt-move sync' is very very useful.

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