> I haven't seen anyone mention apt-offline in this thread, so I will > mention it now: > > apt-offline is an Offline APT Package Manager. > . > apt-offline can fully update and upgrade an APT based distribution > without connecting to the network, all of it transparent to APT. > . > apt-offline can be used to generate a signature on a machine (with > no network). This signature contains all download information > required for the APT database system. This signature file can be > used on another machine connected to the internet (which need not be > a Debian box and can even be running windows) to download the > updates. The downloaded data will contain all updates in a format > understood by APT and this data can be used by apt-offline to update > the non-networked machine. > . > apt-offline can also fetch bug reports and make them available > offline. > Homepage: https://github.com/rickysarraf/apt-offline > > I have no experience using it. Looks to me like for buster you need > to get it from backports.
thank you very much. I see myself using it intensively to deal with my kinds of problems. the best guideline I found at: https://sleeplessbeastie.eu/2014/01/30/how-to-manage-packages-on-an-off-line-debian-system/ about the alpha-offset encoding, please, givie me some time to answer your questions, write up the idea more fully, clearly and I think we should probably start a new thread to discuss it lbrtchx