Re: Maintaining a Debian mirror via "floppy net"

1997-11-19 Thread Christian Leutloff
David Wright <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > I have a PC at home running Debian with no connection to the net. > > So do I. When I install packages, I copy the debian/ tree to a jaz disk perhaps you want to have a look to dftp: Package: dftp Version: 3.1-2 Priority: optional Section: admin Main

Re: Maintaining a Debian mirror via "floppy net"

1997-11-18 Thread David Wright
On 18 Nov 1997, Falk Hueffner wrote: > I have a PC at home running Debian with no connection to the net. So do I. When I install packages, I copy the debian/ tree to a jaz disk in another VC when it asks "shall I delete the installed files", and then I switch back and answer yes, and delete the

Maintaining a Debian mirror via "floppy net"

1997-11-18 Thread Falk Hueffner
Hi, I have a PC at home running Debian with no connection to the net. To keep it up-to-date, i have a mirror of ftp.debian.org. It is quite some work to update it; currently I do it by taking my Packages file, making sort and diff and grep till I have the new Packages, get them via wget, put them