G'day all, a few questions

[Jeff Waugh]

On Fri, 2004-10-01 at 00:47 +0000, kracker at dull.name wrote:
> 1) Is it possible to save the .deb packages that are used to install the
> base system when it downloads them from the internet during the install. 
> I'm not blessed with an incredibly fast pipe and I want to install it on
> both my laptop and my desktop, so having the packages locally after one
> download would be great.

You'll find them all in /var/cache/apt/archives/ :-)

> 2) Will running apt-get update && apt-get upgrade (or dist-upgrade) (or
> using Synaptic) keep me up to date with the latest version of Ubuntu.

It will keep you up to date with warty (as defined in your sources.list
file).

>   I
> mean, when you release, for example, 5.10 or whatever the next release
> after 4.10 final is called, will running those commands update my kernel,
> x11, programs etc. to  the ones included in that version.. and will there
> be updates to the programs as time goes on between releases.  I.e. if, for
> example, Gnome 2.8.1 is released during the "life" of Ubuntu 4.10 will
> that appear in the repositorys?

4.10 (WartyWarthog) is frozen at the moment, accepting only bug fixes.
When we release the final version in October, there will be *no* updates
beyond security, high-impact and dataloss fixes. By then, however, the
development branch for 5.4 (HoaryHedgehog) will be open, if you want to
track that. It will be updated every day until it freezes... and so on.

:-)

- Jeff

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