Re: CVSup(it) for Debian?

[brian moore <bem@cmc.net>]

On Sun, Jan 28, 2001 at 07:56:05PM -0600, John Travis wrote:
> On Sun, 28 Jan 2001 21:52:58 +0400, you wrote:
> 
> :cvsup of FreeBSD is much like Debian's apt-get.  you can either get the source
> :or the .deb package to install.
> :
> :your friend doesn't need to get the whole shebang just to install debian.  one
> :only needs 5 diskettes and the base install file and just apt-get the rest.
> :that way one can install only the files one needs.
> :
> :hth.
> 
> Thanks for the replies but that isn't really what I meant.  And they
> already have potato installed.  It was more a question of building a
> "limited" local mirror.

Then look at apt-move.  Use normal 'apt-get update && apt-get upgrade'
on the 'main' machine, when done, use 'apt-move update'.  Depending on
where you tell apt-move to put its things, you can have a local mirror
(usually of just the packages you install ... which makes it a LOT
easier to maintain without burning bandwidth) via http, ftp, nfs,
whatever.

I periodically burn my deb collection to CD (maybe every 6 months?) as a
sort of backup.

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