periodic upgrade

[Colin Law]

On 15 August 2012 11:29, Thufir <hawat.thufir at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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.

http://askubuntu.com/questions/65640/is-it-possible-to-download-the-updates-via-torrent

Colin

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