On 12/01/13 14:52, Dan Fish wrote:
His broadband is damn expensive and sometimes "sudo apt-get update &&
sudo apt-get -y dist-upgrade" may well use up much of his monthly
allowance.
Ironically, it's very cheap to post via snail mail a usb stick back and
forth! Any ideas how I can keep him up to date (albeit at monthly
intervals) via this method?
My google-fu has failed me.
It's not just updates he'd miss out on, but also new packages he may
want to install. You _could_ mirror the entire repository onto your hard
disk and then copy that to a USB attached drive and post that over.
Right now the entire repo (binary only) for precise takes up 53GB.
Like this:-
debmirror --nosource -m --passive --host=archive.ubuntu.com
--root=ubuntu/ --method=http --progress
--dist=precise,precise-updates,precise-security
--section=main,restricted,universe,multiverse --arch=i386
~/ubuntumirror/ubuntu --ignore-release-gpg
He could then point his apt sources.list at the usb stick and install
packages from it via apt or software centre, as well as update via
update manager.
Cheers,
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