[PLUG] "Gender" issues

[William Lee Irwin III]

On Thu, Sep 27, 2001 at 04:12:48PM -0500, Nels Tomlinson wrote:
> I've been wondering about debian.  The auto-upgrade feature of aptget 
> sounds great, but how practical is it over a (painfully slow, with 
> Purdue as the isp) dialup connection?  I have visions of turning aptget 
> loose and seeing my connection cut off three hours later after getting 
> half of the first package downloaded ... time after time after time.

Why worry? Put apt-get update ; apt-get -yud dist-upgrade in a cron job.
I do, and my apt cache is fresh whenever I need it, with no downloading
other than what happens in the middle of the night while I'm not waiting
for it, not watching it, and not caring how fast or slow it goes.


Cheers,
Bill