On 13/01/13 22:24, Tony Pursell wrote:
On 13 January 2013 21:57, alan c <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
On 13/01/13 02:14, Alan Pope wrote:
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
<http://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,
Maplin are selling a 64 GB USB stick for something like 30 pounds
I think
A bit cheaper from E-Buyer - but you have to pay for delivery, of course.
http://www.ebuyer.com/search?a00413=64&subcat=3618&cat=458
(I don't have shares in them :-)
Tony
Thanks for the advice. I think mirroring the repo is going to be the way
forwards.
BW
Dan
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