Re: "apt-get dist-upgrade" Question:

From: Silvan (dmmcintyr_at_users.sourceforge.net)
Date: 10/09/04

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Date: Fri, 8 Oct 2004 19:17:44 -0400

    On Friday 08 October 2004 12:18 pm, Eric Dickner wrote:

    > For my modem-connected machine it is a ginormous
    > download, some 500 Meg...

    Painful, innit? I did that when I upgraded from Woody to Sarge.

    > Will I, or some kind of disconnnect at the ISP, ruin
    > the whole thing? Can I then issue the command again
    > and will it recognize the packcages it already got?

    I used to

    apt-get dist-upgrade --download

    Or something like that. Check the man page for the syntax. There's an option
    to just download packages. You can run it on successive nights until you get
    everything, and then you can sit down and handle answering all the inevitable
    installation questions at a time of your choosing afterwards by running a
    regular apt-get dist-upgrade.

    > Is this just a bad idea to try over a modem
    > connection?

    It sucks, but it works fine. I did it that way for around a year, and I did
    at least two gigantic 40-hour download marathons in that period. The only
    big problem is if you spread this out over too many days, sometimes the
    package you're trying to get no longer exists, so you have to update and then
    start over with potentially newer versions of all kinds of things.

    (If you do this a few times, and then get cable later, you will be absolutely
    disgusted at how fast it is. These 500 MB upgrades take about an hour,
    including answering all the questions and actually installing everything.) 

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