I wonder if an "apt-mirror" utility would be of interest to anybody in the universe besides myself. Usually, when I have an idea like this, I poke around and find that somebody has already had the same idea and has already solved it, but, in this case, I can't find the solution.
Of course, my idea may be impractical to begin with. So, here is my problem: I have a low speed connection at home, but a high speed connection at work. When I am at work I need to, ahem, be working. But when I am at home, I get to play with things and try things out. Also, I occasionally find myself in a position where I need to reinstall my system from scratch (either on a new system (not that often, but it does happen occasionally), or as a result of my tinkering (oops). The last time I found myself in this position, I decided to give Debian a try. I downloaded the ISO's for woody (using the high speed connection at work), and when I got home, was able to install them. Then I heard about security.debian.org, download.kde.org, and www.backports.org. So, what I would like to do is to occasionally make a mirror snapshot of a particular distribution site (such as those listed above) in such a manner as to be able to burn the snapshot onto a CD and add that to the pile of install CD's (updating sources.list accordingly). Then, when I want to upgrade a package, or install one that I haven't installed before, I will do my usual "apt-get" and be prompted to install the correct CD. It's a little bit similar to jigdo, or maybe, exactly like jigdo, I'm not sure. So, does this sound useful to anybody other than me? Is this totally impractical (recall, I am a newbie to Debian, and "the Debian way"). Has this already been solved? Questions, comments, and snide remarks are welcome. --wpd
