Re: make CD of only newest 3 months of sid
On Mon, 2003-01-06 at 11:58, Dan Jacobson wrote:
> Dear Debian Sirs, a few months ago I want to town and my friend made
> me 10 cd's: _Sid_ - fsn.hu unofficial i386 Binary (20021010)]
>
> Now if I go to town again can I say, have him use the "jigdo"
> mechanism to make just a few cd's that hold only the changes to sid
> since 20021010, avoiding the embarrassment of having him do the whole
> job over?
>
> Or maybe make some kind of custom CD of anything in sid newer than
> 20021009?
>
> It seems any of these would me more trouble than having him burn me a
> whole new set. Or maybe I should just keep my mouth shut and not ask
> for an update until say 6 months have passed... ah, the luck of the
> piddly modem user. (BTW, I would use apt-cdrom on the update CD, that
> is no problem, I can handle that.)
Maybe with creative use of ls, grep and "apt-cache show", you could
create a diff list between what's on your CDs, and what's currently
in sid.
Then, you can do a bunch of "wget"s to get the updated packages.
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