[wellylug] Odd internet (ip-up?) Problems (was: Problems with fetchmail)

Donald Gordon don at dis.org.nz
Sat May 1 23:46:02 NZST 2004


On 28/04/2004, at 9:42 AM, Simon Blake wrote:

> It's been a few years since I ran a Debian box on dialup, but I used to
> track unstable by the simple expedient of leaving dselect running
> overnight - if it finished, it started installing, if it didn't, you
> could just control-C the download and start it again the next night.  
> It
> won't install any packages till it has everything downloaded, so you're
> unlikely to be hosed by a missing dependancy.  It would take a while to
> get it up to unstable, but once you were sync'd, it was maybe one night
> every ten to download the 10-30MB to keep it in sync (depending on
> security advisories, etc).

FWIW, apt-get -d foo will perform the download bit of action 'foo', but 
not actually install anything.

donald




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