[09:16] <nibalizer> ?
[09:16] <nibalizer> cy1: man pages?
[09:16] <nibalizer> cy1 maybe some kind of http proxy?
[09:16] <nibalizer> why is the computer isolated from the internet, and if it is, why does it need to be updated?
[09:17] <cy1> nibalizer: because the guy receiving it has no Internet and just wants a computer to play on.
[09:17] <cy1> his last experience was with win98
[09:17] <cy1> in 1998
[09:19] <nibalizer> o.O
[09:19] <cy1> But I wanted to ask, because doing updates on an offline computer does have certain applications. But it's not exactly nice to download every Ubuntu package to your local repository just so you can update the 5 that are installed and need updates.
[09:19] <cy1> So a script that produced a list of updates needed, transfered by USB stick to an online computer that got those packages... hm
[09:19] <nibalizer> uhm
[09:20] <nibalizer> yea
[09:20] <nibalizer> good luck with taht rube goldberg machine
[09:20] <blkperl> thats sounds awful and unmaintainable
[09:20] <cy1> no a script that only downloads the info for finding latest updates, then goes to the offline computer, then takes the resulting calculation back to the online one.
[09:20] <blkperl> how can the script go to the offline computer?
[09:20] <cy1> via USB stick?
[09:20] <blkperl> ewwwwwwwwwwwww
[09:20] <cy1> ZIP DRIVE
[09:22] <cy1> You don't really need to update at all if it isn't online. Just upgrade when a new version comes out on DVD. *shrug*
[09:35] <nibalizer> cy1: so you could get dpkg to tell you current version of all pkgs, redirect that to a file
[09:35] <nibalizer> then take that file to a machine with internet
[09:36] <nibalizer> then write a script that loooks up the package info web site
[09:36] <nibalizer> and for each package compares version
[09:36] <nibalizer> then if they are different, and the web version is greater, download to usb stick
[09:36] <nibalizer> then take usb stick back to offline computer
[09:37] <nibalizer> then dpkg -i *
[09:37] <nibalizer> but don't do that
[09:37] <nibalizer> really
[09:37] <nibalizer> dont do it
[09:42] <cy1> but why :c
[09:59] <nibalizer> w/in 6
[09:59] <nibalizer> cy1: cus ew
[22:26]  * bkerensa slaps BBG-Nathan with a trout