Ian Blenke wrote:
> In fact, it's rather neat to update packages on a "protected"
> firewalled
> server somewhere via an SSH tunnel:
>
> workstation$ ssh -R 8080:{proxy}:{port} root@protectedserver
> protectedserver# export http_proxy=http://user:pass@localhost:8080
> protectedserver# apt-get update
> protectedserver# apt-get dist-upgrade
>
> where {proxy}:{port} is ...
I wish this was the default procedure in all of our release notes here.
Vernon
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