On Sun, Jan 28, 2001 at 07:56:05PM -0600, John Travis wrote: > On Sun, 28 Jan 2001 21:52:58 +0400, you wrote: > > :cvsup of FreeBSD is much like Debian's apt-get. you can either get the > source > :or the .deb package to install. > : > :your friend doesn't need to get the whole shebang just to install debian. > one > :only needs 5 diskettes and the base install file and just apt-get the rest. > :that way one can install only the files one needs. > : > :hth. > > Thanks for the replies but that isn't really what I meant. And they > already have potato installed. It was more a question of building a > "limited" local mirror.
Then look at apt-move. Use normal 'apt-get update && apt-get upgrade' on the 'main' machine, when done, use 'apt-move update'. Depending on where you tell apt-move to put its things, you can have a local mirror (usually of just the packages you install ... which makes it a LOT easier to maintain without burning bandwidth) via http, ftp, nfs, whatever. I periodically burn my deb collection to CD (maybe every 6 months?) as a sort of backup. -- CueCat decoder .signature by Larry Wall: #!/usr/bin/perl -n printf "Serial: %s Type: %s Code: %s\n", map { tr/a-zA-Z0-9+-/ -_/; $_ = unpack 'u', chr(32 + length()*3/4) . $_; s/\0+$//; $_ ^= "C" x length; } /\.([^.]+)/g;