Ubuntu Updates

[Gabriel M Dragffy]

Hi, I have now implemented your solution and it is indeed the preferred
method! Much better than using apt-move. After installing debmirror I
spent the last 3 hours figuring out the correct command and parameters
to pass to make it do what I wanted (give me dapper security and
updates). Thank God the man pages were in a concise a readily
understandable format. For anyone interested this is the command I ended
up using:

debmirror --progress --verbose /media/LACIE/Backup/mirror
--host=ru.archive.ubuntu.com --root=/ubuntu
--dist=dapper-security,dapper-updates --section=main,restricted
--method=http --nosource --ignore-small-errors

You can also append --dry-run to just see what it wants to do. After
this I managed rather by fluke to guess the correct lines for a
sources.list:
deb file:///media/LACIE/Backup/mirror dapper-updates main restricted
deb file:///media/LACIE/Backup/mirror dapper-security main restricted

Now whichever computer I want to update I attach my usb hard drive, make
sure of the path and add those lines to the machine's sources.list.
Also I have high hopes for simply dumping the contents to a CD and using
apt-cdrom add       on a target computer.

PS: The two repositories total 550MB updates+security (main+restricted).



On Thu, 2006-06-29 at 22:31 +0200, Florian Diesch wrote:

> Gabriel Dragffy <dragffy at yandex.ru> wrote:
> 
> > So now it has been nearly a month since the official release of Dapper. Already
> > on a fresh install from the alternate CD there are 90+ updates waiting to be
> > downloaded and installed. I plan on installing Dapper on several computers that
> > are non-networked and messing around with apt-move on a networked computer is
> > getting tiresome. Is there a CD available with the update available ready to
> > use, or are the updates going to be incorporated into the standard alternate-cd
> > ISO download, so I can get a Dapper that really is the latest?
> 
> I would use debmirror on a networked computer to create a mirror of
> dapper-security (and maybe dapper-updates) and burn it on CD (or
> whatever medium you like).
> 
> If I got it right dapper-security is about 400 MB (main, restricted,
> universe, multiverse) and dapper-updates about 250 MB now.
> 
> 
>    Florian
> -- 
> <http://www.florian-diesch.de/>
> 
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