On 7/25/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
The 'Repo on external drives' idea is superb, i often want to install things at work, which is a secure network and hence we cant have internet access to not secured machines, would also be better for big sites IE schools/businesses who dont want to have their proxys loaded with small .debs (think WSUS). Does anybody know the kind of sizes the repos are?
About 30GB, or so I was told... As
to price, buying from and normal retail outlet will be expensive, somebody must have a trade account at a cash'n'carry somewhere? Steven Pepperell
I know someone who lives in another country with only dial-up access to the internet. While it is of course possible for him to order a CD from shipit, Ubuntu is still only supplied with a basic set of applications. Instead I am sending him a CD by post, along with a custom DVD of packages. I wrote a small script to parse the Ubuntu popcon results, and select the top N packages that fit into a specified capacity. I then passed these to 'aptitude download' which will grab the debs, which can then be used by AptOnCD. This way I managed to build myself a DVD containing pretty much most of the commonly installed packages. I even made a copy for myself, for when I take my laptop on the road... it's really handy :D Of course the obvious benefit of a HDD is greater capacity, and you can update it whenever necessary. Still, I just wanted to share my story :) Matthew.
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