I use apt-mirror[1] to grab sid at a particular point in time and then use that to install all my desktop machines. [1] http://apt-mirror.sourceforge.net/ - Ryan On Fri, Apr 02, 2004 at 06:56:39PM +0200, Bruno BEAUFILS wrote: > > Hi all, > > I administer a bunch of hosts at work. I have something like 150 PC with 6 > servers. > > I install those PC with a bunch of hand-made script using ssh, rsync, debconf > and a home made debian mirror. > > This mirror is updated every night. It is used for those PC but not only. Some > others machines on our campus use it. So this mirror has to be a clean debian > mirror. > > Unfortunately I have to use sid on hosts (clients side) since my users need > recent release of some software (KDE, and GNOME for instance). > > At time t I am able to install properly all hosts. Sometime after, let's say > time t+30 days, some changes have been made by my users and thus I need to > reinstall all computers in the same state as in time t. > > Unfortunately my debian mirror has changed since sid is unstable by nature. > > So installation does not work anymore since some packages have changed a lot > (last experience was with gdm for instance). > > Is there anyway to keep a mirror of time t without having to duplicate it at > that time ? Some kind of a customized distribution between sid and sarge ... > > I thought about only copying Packages.gz from time t and creating a dumb > debian repository including only Packages.gz with links in it to the real > mirror. > > Of course my mirror script will have to keep all packages wich versions are > used in that Packages.gz.
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