Offline Updates

[Jonathan Jesse]

I would also argue for this to be included somehow.  I am one of the few
dial-up users and would love to be able to download an update CD from a
friend with broadband and then bring the CD home and patch everything.

-----Original Message-----
From: sounder-bounces at lists.ubuntu.com
[mailto:sounder-bounces at lists.ubuntu.com] On Behalf Of Lukas Sabota
Sent: Monday, May 29, 2006 6:55 PM
To: Dennis Kaarsemaker
Cc: sounder at lists.ubuntu.com
Subject: Re: Offline Updates

On Tue, 2006-05-30 at 00:33 +0200, 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}?
That would really be ideal.  

God bless,
Lukas


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