Paul Makepeace wrote:
>
> On Thu, Jan 11, 2001 at 11:27:18AM +0000, Greg Cope wrote:
> > I've played with rolling my own, based on a Linux kernel, but found that
> > I ended up upgrading stuff all the time - which is not my idea of fun!
>
> # apt-get update
> # apt-get dist-upgrade
>
> Bingo, all patches and upgrades performed.
>
> > debian put me off as I tried an update on a 56k modem - 2 hours latter
> > it had done 10 % ..... Their CD release cycles are far to far appart !
>
> Yup -- their release cycle is frustratingly slow. Have a look
> at http://www.cheapbytes.com/ -- they do debian snapshots. But
> yes, it's not an OS that is modem friendly.
Ironically I was just thinking about this 5 mins before I read this.
Can this be done over the network, or is it interactive / need to be
done on a console.
The reason I ask is that I am about to setup a server (for me), and then
send if off to co-lo, and once there I do not want to visit every X to
perform a distribution upgrade.
Clues welcome.
Greg
>
> Paul
