Racing snails (part 3)

[mdlbear]

... and of course it doesn't bother to check for software updates after you install the upgrade. It's already connected... how hard can it be? Debian, as usual, has been doing this all along. And I had to check for updates yet again in order to get Java 1.5.

The Bear is not impressed.

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[mdlbear]

About an hour's worth of configuration followed by an over-the-weekend marathon rsync (at work). Sometime later I took a copy of the archive home in a USB-attached hard drive.

I actually had a legitimate reason for it at work -- I had to do updates on a system that wasn't allowed web access through the firewall. But it's easy to get addicted.

Before the mirror, I would speed up installs by copying /var/cache/apt/archives from a fully-configured system, which worked just as well but wasn't quite as convenient.