Rural modemed me goes to town every two months or so and hopes to bring back fresh sid CDs. But my pal just burned a set of 10 last month, how embarrassing to ask him to burn a whole fresh set each time. I bet the changed packages would fill up just a couple of CDs...
1. let's find just what I need for my update cd's: $ ssh my.account.on.debian.server $ touch -t 200210090000 timestamp $ cd where? $ find . -newer timestamp ... #?? #anyways, generate a list of sid packages newer than timestamp Or: wget ftp://...some..list and analyze the list vs. dpkg's lists on my machine.. then somehow make CDs of just those. then use apt-cdrom to register them. >>>>> "R" == Richard Atterer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: R> Hi Dan, R> On Tue, Jan 07, 2003 at 01:58:01AM +0800, Dan Jacobson wrote: >> Now if I go to town again can I say, have him use the "jigdo" >> mechanism to make just a few cd's that hold only the changes to sid >> since 20021010, avoiding the embarrassment of having him do the whole >> job over? R> No, sorry - that's just not how jigdo works! jigdo can only recreate CDs R> that have previously been created by someone else and then made available R> for download. You're expecting it to create custom CDs which contain only R> certain packages of your choice - no-one has created such CDs, so jigdo R> can't reproduce them. R> What you /can/ do, however, is to bring all of your old CDs to your R> friend's, then he can use jigdo to update them to the latest sid snapshot but I see him at a social event where he gives me the cds he has burned the day before. i.e. no time for more interaction. R> from fsn.hu. This means that your friend will still have to burn the R> complete set of CDs, but he will not have to download the contents of all R> those CDs again, because jigdo is able to reuse those packages on the old R> CDs that are still present on the new CDs. even if i were to mail him a list of the contents of the cds and he could use that to tell jigdo, he still would need top make 10 cds i see. R> I should probably point out that this update mechanism works much better R> for stable or testing than for unstable, because unstable changes so R> rapidly. But it should still be worth the effort even for unstable. R> For details on making jigdo reuse old packages, see the HOWTO R> <http://www.dirac.org/linux/debian/jigdo/>. Anyways it seems the case where updates would only comprise <30% of the original are not ideally covered yet... Wait, maybe one of the switches to apt-get could figure out what is newer than my current CDrom set that i registered last time with apt-cdrom, and just report a list... note that it must not actually change anything, and it should see what's newer with respect to my current cds, not what packages i've installed or not on my system. then i would take that list an have cds made... but those cd's i suppose must look like those .hu ISOs, i.e. more than just .debs anyway, i believe i stumbled on a legitimate problem. assume 'mom' doesn't allow sonny to use the modem for more than 10 minutes a day. -- http://jidanni.org/ Taiwan(04)25854780 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
