Ubuntu upgrades

[Daniel Mons]

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Slawek Drabot wrote:
| all this talk of downloads has reminded me of something:
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| how do you deal with downloading upgrades for multiple installs?
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| I have Ubuntu on 2 machines, and it seems a waste to download the same
upgrades twice. What strategies do people use to avoid this situation?
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A combination of squid-proxy in transparent mode (using heap LFUDA with
a large maximum file size, and large data store) as well as apt-proxy
pointing to a local mirror.

Combine the two, and bandwidth issues for Linux upgrades are moot.  I
run several locations with between 20 and 100 Ubuntu workstations in
them, all with this setup.  None of them face any major dramas come
upgrade time.

Similarly, I use etherboot/netboot to do workstation installs, which
then pulls the data direct from the apt-cache, meaning that installed
workstations have the latest stuff direct on disk, rather than installed
from CD, and then doing updates afterwards.

- -Dan
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