[lug] Debian update

[Gary Hodges]

Hugh Brown wrote:
> Nate Duehr wrote:
>> David L. Anselmi wrote:
>>> Gary Hodges wrote:
>>>> I have a remote machine (phone connection only) that I will be 
>>>> visiting next week.  I'm going to update the OS (Debian Sarge) while 
>>>> I'm there. I have the most recent Sarge on DVD, 3.1r6.
>>>
>>> Is upgrading a significant benefit?  Sounds like you need to mirror 
>>> the security repository.  That shouldn't be too hard.
>>
>> It's actually rather large.  Debian's repositories are "pool" based, 
>> from changes made years ago.
>>
>> ALL security updates for ALL versions are lumped into a directory 
>> structure that breaks up directories in the tree by package filenames.
>>
>> Then there's hmm, shall we say "index" files (Packages.gz, 
>> Packages.bz2) that "point" to which updates are needed for specific 
>> release codenames, in codename specific directories that have NO other 
>> files in them.
>>
>> So to mirror all of security.debian.org, you're mirroring a lot of 
>> junk you don't need...
>>
>> Nate
> 
> 
> Though I did discover debmirror last night which you can use to get a 
> specific dist and arch.
> 
> For example:
> 
> debmirror /local/mirror/debian  --host=ftp.us.debian.org  -p -v 
> --passive --dist=sarge --arch=i386

I just got this started.  Seems to be working.  I'm already at atari800! 
  Thanks to everyone for their input.

Gary