Re: Offline systems

[Andrew Cater <amacater@gmail.com>]

Myself - I might use the 16G stick as install medium - see conversations elsewhere in this list on how to use jigod. That gives you the contents of more than DVD 1 to DVD 3 in one small format. These are up to 70 real, physical servers and not VMs? You might want to look at automated ways to deploy and build that many servers.

What you're asking is possible - but not necessarily a good move: Debian changes daily with fixes, security fixes and so on. Unless you are going to build them and then walk away completely - build a mirror which is dual-homed: you can connect it to the internet to pull in updates very regularly, then disconnect form the internet and use this machine to update all of the others.

All the very best, as ever,

Andy C

On Sun, Sep 20, 2020 at 3:47 PM mick crane <mick.crane@gmail.com> wrote:

On 2020-09-20 16:31, Thomas Schmitt wrote:
> Hi,
>
> mick crane wrote:
>> Somebody mentioned jigdo which looked like a good thing.
>
> Jigdo is used for making ISO images from a frame of ISO 9660 metadata
> and
> other non-packaged stuff (the .template file), and the .deb packages on
> a
> mirror, or in a repository, or in an older ISO image.
> The .jigdo file contains the list of packages which shall be inserted
> into
> the frame.
>
> So except that you get them wrapped in an ISO image, the packages are
> just
> the same as on the mirror server (or other package source) from which
> you
> could fetch them by appropriate means.
>
>
> Have a nice day :)
>
> Thomas

What's the best appropriate means then to fetch mirror and then only
fetch differences to local copy ? wget does that doesn't it ?
Not that I want to but wondered.

mick


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