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Re: Automatic updates for Athena 10
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Kenneth Arnold)
Wed Aug 13 12:34:00 2008
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Date: Wed, 13 Aug 2008 12:33:15 -0400
From: Kenneth Arnold <kcarnold@MIT.EDU>
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Greg Hudson wrote:
> The actual update process is just "aptitude update && aptitude
> full-upgrade"
1. Those two steps could be decoupled; it's pretty much always safe to
run 'update' (and 'full-upgrade -d') while the machine is in use.
2. To address the network load: apt-proxy per cluster, or bittorrent?
(multicast seems to have lost its allure after the 1990s...)
-Ken
