periodic upgrade

[Thufir]

On Wed, 15 Aug 2012 10:16:07 +0100, Colin Law wrote:

>>> however, what happens when --download-only is interrupted?  Does it
>>> need to start over, or does it realize which ones were already
>>> downloaded? There are lotsa packages.
>>
>> It will not re-download packages that have already been downloaded. You
>> can safely interrupt a download.
> 
> Also, if you have more than one PC and a slow connection you might like
> to look at squid-deb-proxy.


Just the one pc, thanks, however.

Every time I update I wonder that the whole update things isn't done with 
bittorrent, but I guess that would be a huge change.


-Thufir