general questions about updates

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Wed, Aug 29, 2007 at 12:14:08PM -0400, Craig Routledge wrote:
> On broadband yes.  On dialup, some of the big packages you'd better let 
> download while you do something else.

I used to do this when I had dial up to maintain a debian unstable
system:

dial up internet with 'pon' then do:
apt-get update;apt-get --download-only -y dist-upgrade;poff

Then I would go to bed, and in the morning it would be ready for me to
install the updates it had already downloaded.

--
Len Sorensen
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