On Fri, 26 Jan 2001, Ron Rademaker wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > I guess you could make a crontab running 'apt-get update' and 'apt-get -d > - -y upgrade', running that in times you have some bandwidth will get all > the update, but won't install them. You can now use ftp or something to > get the packages to the other machines (or make you > /var/cache/apt/archives apt-get-able for you local network). > The downside of this approach would be that you won't get any security > updates of packages not installed on the machine with the crontab.
Hi, ever considered apt-proxy, it does what this is trying to achive. [RicV]
