The following packages...(too many)

[Colin Law]

2009/9/20 Jay Daniels <tux at myt60.net>:
> On Sat, 2009-09-19 at 23:58 -0400, Tim Tebbit wrote:
>> Jay Daniels wrote:
>> >
>> > The Gnome update manager gives you the option to download only.  But I
>> > have no idea where it saves the updates, anyone?
>> >
>>
>> /var/cache/apt/archives/
>>
>> And to the best of my knowledge apt *does* resume from where it left off.
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> Now it would be nice if apt-get keeps all downloaded packages or at
> least latest version, then you could just burn these onto a dvd and
> reinstall then install all updates from dvd.  Is this the way it works
> or is this cache wiped out every time you update?

If you look in var/cache/apt/archives you will see them all there,
unless you have cleared it out.  At least that is the case for me on
8.10.

>
> For instance, I want to create an updated dvd with all latest 8.04
> updates.  How do I do this?

I believe that if you just copy the files into var/cache/apt/archives
on another pc (via CD if that is what you want, I use rsync) then apt
will see them there and use them rather than downloading again.

Colin

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