On 13/01/12 02:12, Fiedler Roman wrote: > Hello List, > > Perhaps someone might know a solution or at least where to start searching > for a solution by myself. The problem: > > A system isolated from internet should receive standard distribution package > updates. Since the system cannot fetch the packages from public repositories > or internal mirrors, some way to create an archive with all necessary .deb > packages would be nice. The archive is then transferred to the machine via > e.g. usb. > > Would it be possible with a scheme like that? > > * The list of currently installed packages is extracted from the isolated host > > * On another host with internet access, the list of installed packages is > compared to the current package list > > * Only the packages newer than the ones installed are fetched from the > repository > > * The fetched packages are used to create a local file-base repository (e.g. > with apt-ftparchive) and this data is copied to the isolated machine > > * Standard update/upgrade on isolated machine using the local file repository > as source. > > > Is this the best way to archive the goal? > > Are there tools or a howto available on how to extract the package > information from source, use it for fetching ....? > > Thanks, > Roman > > <snipped> > Other have already suggested apt-zip, another method is to use the update DVDs and CDs. eg. see the update CDs at the bottom of the list:- http://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/6.0.3/i386/iso-cd/
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