I have a slow dialup so I created a script to get the deb's I need without doing an 'apt-get update'. Maybe it will help someone else.
Did you try
# apt-get --download-only --yes dist-upgrade
cron-apt runs that for me at night, then during the day when I do apt-get dist-upgrade it doesn't need to download anything.
(I almost think the installer should install cron-apt by default!)
Randy
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