Offline Updates

[Scott Dier]

Dennis Kaarsemaker wrote:
> On ma, 2006-05-29 at 15:12 -0700, Matt Zimmerman wrote:
>> On Mon, May 29, 2006 at 05:55:45PM -0400, Lukas Sabota wrote:
>>> Along Dapper's 3 years of support, it will release updates for security
>>> and bugfixes.  These updates will be issued through the dapper-updates
>>> repository.  However, what if one has an offline install with no
>>> internet connection?  Is there any way to receive these updates short of
>>> burning the debs to a disk?
>> Without a network connection, the updates cannot be automatically delivered
>> to your system.  Yes, you would need to put them on removable media and
>> physically bring them to the machine.
> 
> How about X-monthly service pack .iso's containing packages from
> dapper-{security,updates}?
> 

Or even a script to generate an ISO would be nice.  Worst case, you 
could use dar along with debmirror, i think, and just make your own dar 
set of isos of a snapshot of the updates archive.

Thanks,

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Scott Dier <dieman at ringworld.org>