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On Wed, 6 May 1998, James R. Van Zandt wrote:
>
> >> I maintain a hamm mirror at work. According to my records, the
> >> traffic to keep hamm up to date amounts to about 20 MB/day.
>
> >I'm a bit of a newbie with respect to Debian, and I've recently susbcribed
> >to some mailing lists. I'm still reading a lot of FAQ material, but since
> >I saw this thread I couldn't resist to ask: what's the recommended way
> >(program) to keep an updated unstable distribution for a home user?
>
> I don't know of any easy way.
>
There is an easy way. I do it at home.
My personal traffic amounts to about 40 megs a week. (that's a one
night update) This can be accomplished easily with apt.
If you want it done automatically, here is how you do it:
1) get apt. project/experimental on ftp.debian.org:/pub/debian
2) set up apt's resources. I have included a file sent to me by
culus (apt maintainer) that lists all available http resources.
3) create a cron job to get online and run "apt-get update;
apt-get dist-upgrade -m" (nightly or weekly -- your choice).
4) every time cron runs apt will automatically get every file you
need and fix everything in place, without needing any input from you.
Personally, I just use the easy method: su root and do it myself.
setting up apt's resources: I have attatched the master source list from a
while back -- it should still be good enough. however, remember to remove
the stable entry -- apt will not update stable correctly. Remeber that
having more than two actual servers listed in the sources list... is
overkill.
And btw -- this should have been on debian-user. I'm forwarding it there
now.
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# Tim Sailer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
# HTTP 1.0 - roxen
deb http://llug.sep.bnl.gov/debian stable main contrib non-free
deb http://llug.sep.bnl.gov/debian unstable main contrib non-free
deb http://llug.sep.bnl.gov/debian frozen main contrib non-free
# <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
deb http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian stable main contrib non-free
deb http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian unstable main contrib non-free
deb http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian frozen main contrib non-free
deb http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian-non-US stable/binary-i386/
deb http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian-non-US unstable/binary-i386/
#
deb http://ftp.monash.edu.au/pub/linux/distributions/debian stable main contrib
non-free
deb http://ftp.monash.edu.au/pub/linux/distributions/debian unstable main
contrib non-free
deb http://ftp.monash.edu.au/pub/linux/distributions/debian frozen main contrib
non-free
deb http://ftp.monash.edu.au/pub/linux/distributions/debian-non-US
stable/binary-i386/
deb http://ftp.monash.edu.au/pub/linux/distributions/debian-non-US
unstable/binary-i386/
# <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
deb http://ftp.kernel.org/pub/mirrors/debian stable main contrib non-free
deb http://ftp.kernel.org/pub/mirrors/debian unstable main contrib non-free
deb http://ftp.kernel.org/pub/mirrors/debian frozen main contrib non-free
# <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
deb http://ftp.cdrom.com/pub/linux/debian stable main contrib non-free
deb http://ftp.cdrom.com/pub/linux/debian unstable main contrib non-free
deb http://ftp.cdrom.com/pub/linux/debian frozen main contrib non-free
# <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
deb http://ftp.infomagic.com/pub/mirrors/linux/debian stable main contrib
non-free
deb http://ftp.infomagic.com/pub/mirrors/linux/debian unstable main contrib
non-free
deb http://ftp.infomagic.com/pub/mirrors/linux/debian frozen main contrib
non-free
# <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
deb http://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/Linux/distributions/debian stable main contrib
non-free
deb http://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/Linux/distributions/debian unstable main contrib
non-free
deb http://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/Linux/distributions/debian frozen main contrib
non-free
# <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
deb http://web.rge.com/pub/systems/linux/debian stable main contrib non-free
deb http://web.rge.com/pub/systems/linux/debian unstable main contrib non-free
deb http://web.rge.com/pub/systems/linux/debian frozen main contrib non-free
#
deb http://ftp1.us.debian.org/debian stable main contrib non-free
deb http://ftp1.us.debian.org/debian unstable main contrib non-free
deb http://ftp1.us.debian.org/debian frozen main contrib non-free
#
# HTTP 1.0 - roxen
deb http://www.kfki.hu/ftp/linux/debian stable main contrib non-free
deb http://www.kfki.hu/ftp/linux/debian unstable main contrib non-free
deb http://www.kfki.hu/ftp/linux/debian frozen main contrib non-free
deb http://www.kfki.hu/ftp/linux/debian-non-US stable/binary-i386/
deb http://www.kfki.hu/ftp/linux/debian-non-US unstable/binary-i386/
# <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
deb http://sunsite.doc.ic.ac.uk/Mirrors/ftp.debian.org/pub/debian stable main
contrib non-free
deb http://sunsite.doc.ic.ac.uk/Mirrors/ftp.debian.org/pub/debian unstable main
contrib non-free
deb http://sunsite.doc.ic.ac.uk/Mirrors/ftp.debian.org/pub/debian frozen main
contrib non-free
# <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
deb http://www.hensa.ac.uk/mirrors/debian stable main contrib non-free
deb http://www.hensa.ac.uk/mirrors/debian unstable main contrib non-free
deb http://www.hensa.ac.uk/mirrors/debian frozen main contrib non-free
# <archive@sunsite.cnlab-switch.ch>
deb http://sunsite.cnlab-switch.ch/ftp/mirror/linux/distributions/debian stable
main contrib non-free
deb http://sunsite.cnlab-switch.ch/ftp/mirror/linux/distributions/debian
unstable main contrib non-free
deb http://sunsite.cnlab-switch.ch/ftp/mirror/linux/distributions/debian frozen
main contrib non-free
# Paul Young, Jason Andrade <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
deb http://ftp.questnet.net.au/debian stable main contrib non-free
deb http://ftp.questnet.net.au/debian unstable main contrib non-free
deb http://ftp.questnet.net.au/debian frozen main contrib non-free
deb http://ftp.questnet.net.au/debian-non-US stable/binary-i386/
deb http://ftp.questnet.net.au/debian-non-US unstable/binary-i386/
# Andrew Howell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
deb http://ftp.au.debian.org/debian stable main contrib non-free
deb http://ftp.au.debian.org/debian unstable main contrib non-free
deb http://ftp.au.debian.org/debian frozen main contrib non-free
deb http://ftp.au.debian.org/debian-non-US stable/binary-i386/
deb http://ftp.au.debian.org/debian-non-US unstable/binary-i386/
# Fumitoshi UKAI <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
deb http://ftp.jp.debian.org/debian stable main contrib non-free
deb http://ftp.jp.debian.org/debian unstable main contrib non-free
deb http://ftp.jp.debian.org/debian frozen main contrib non-free
deb http://ftp.jp.debian.org/debian-non-US stable/binary-i386/
deb http://ftp.jp.debian.org/debian-non-US unstable/binary-i386/
# Georg Hitsch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
deb http://ftp.at.debian.org/debian stable main contrib non-free
deb http://ftp.at.debian.org/debian unstable main contrib non-free
deb http://ftp.at.debian.org/debian frozen main contrib non-free
deb http://ftp.at.debian.org/debian-non-US stable/binary-i386/
deb http://ftp.at.debian.org/debian-non-US unstable/binary-i386/
# Anand Kumria <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
deb http://ftp.progsoc.uts.edu.au/pub/Linux/debian-non-US/ stable/binary-i386/
deb http://ftp.progsoc.uts.edu.au/pub/Linux/debian-non-US/ unstable/binary-i386/
# Steve Hsieh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
deb http://linux.eecs.umich.edu/pub/linux/debian stable main contrib non-free
deb http://linux.eecs.umich.edu/pub/linux/debian unstable main contrib non-free
deb http://linux.eecs.umich.edu/pub/linux/debian frozen main contrib non-free
#
deb http://ftp.funet.fi/pub/Linux/mirrors/debian stable main contrib non-free
deb http://ftp.funet.fi/pub/Linux/mirrors/debian unstable main contrib non-free
deb http://ftp.funet.fi/pub/Linux/mirrors/debian frozen main contrib non-free
deb http://ftp.funet.fi/pub/Linux/mirrors/debian-non-US stable/binary-i386/
deb http://ftp.funet.fi/pub/Linux/mirrors/debian-non-US stable/binary-i386/
# <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
deb http://debian.hands.com/debian stable main contrib non-free non-us
deb http://debian.hands.com/debian frozen main contrib non-free non-us
deb http://debian.hands.com/debian unstable main contrib non-free non-us
# Herbert Xu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
deb http://mirror.aarnet.edu.au/debian stable main contrib non-free
deb http://mirror.aarnet.edu.au/debian unstable main contrib non-free
deb http://mirror.aarnet.edu.au/debian frozen main contrib non-free
# Marcelo Magallon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
deb http://www.efis.ucr.ac.cr/pub/debian stable main contrib non-free
deb http://www.efis.ucr.ac.cr/pub/debian unstable main contrib non-free
deb http://www.efis.ucr.ac.cr/pub/debian frozen main contrib non-free
deb http://www.efis.ucr.ac.cr/pub/debian/non-US stable/binary-i386
deb http://www.efis.ucr.ac.cr/pub/debian/non-US unstable/binary-i386
