Offline Updates

[Matt Zimmerman]

On Tue, May 30, 2006 at 11:00:27AM +0200, Dennis Kaarsemaker wrote:
> On di, 2006-05-30 at 01:39 -0700, Matt Zimmerman wrote:
> > On Tue, May 30, 2006 at 12:53:25AM +0200, Dennis Kaarsemaker wrote:
> > > On ma, 2006-05-29 at 17:40 -0500, Scott Dier wrote:
> > > 
> > > > 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. 
> > > 
> > > If no official solution can be provided I'm going to have to do this :)
> > 
> > Why do you assume that it couldn't be official if you do it?
> 
> Because the thing I have in mind for this would qualify as an Evil Hack.
> Currently I'm thinking of some bzr diff+makeisofs magic using parts of
> my own repository maintenance tool (which I really should upload to REVU
> one of these days).

That sounds like a lot more work than just making a CD using apt-ftparchive
and mkisofs.

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 - mdz