Australian repository gone AWOL?

[Paul Schulz]

Greg,

If you are rolling Ubuntu out in an office enviroment (as you
mentioned) one tool I have found particularly useful is 'apt-cacher'.

It will allow you to automatically cache downloaded packages, which
helps when updating large numbers of computers (>2).

There are also couple of similar packages..

Cheers,
Paul

On 7/29/07, Gregory Storer <gps at storer.com.au> wrote:
> On Sat, 2007-07-28 at 18:05 +0800, Christopher Lees wrote:
> > Why are people still using the command-line to change to a different
> > mirror?
> >
> > On Feisty:
> >
> > System > Administration > Software Sources
> >
> > In the "Download from:" popup, select "Other", then choose another
> > mirror from the list. I just switched mine to iinet, and everything is
> > working fine again.
>
> This has been an interesting discussion - I'm still fairly new at this -
> I'm running feisty and changed the software sources as suggested.  I
> wasn't aware that the other mirror was broken - is there no warning
> message if it can't contact a repository?  Or are security updates
> maintained in another place?
>
> I also run a server edition - 6.10 I think (don't make me check) I just
> ran apt-get update and it says it "HIT" ftp://au.archive.ubuntu.com - I
> had always assumed that was a good thing - is it?
>
> I'm hoping to roll out Ubuntu in a work environment, and need to be
> clear how the updates work as I'm sure that will be one of the many
> questions I'll need to field... but that's another email.
>
> Gregory
>
>
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