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date: "2003-12-15T12:07:09Z"
title: Poor Man's Debian Mirror
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<p>
I'm not sure if I've posted this before, but if you <a href='http://www.debian.org/'>Debian</a> users drop this in root's crontab, you'll save a whole lot of download time:
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<pre>
# cache latest packages at 5am
1 5 * * * apt-get -q update &amp;&amp; apt-get -qfmuy --download-only dist-upgrade
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<p>
That'll cache the latest packages every morning.  This isn't my idea, I stole it from <a href='http://www.linuxbrit.co.uk/'>Tom (giblet)</a>, and I have no idea who he stole it from.
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