Brisbane Install Fest

[Dave Hall]

On 31/12/11 11:23, Chris Robinson wrote:
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> *From:* Jared Norris <jrnorris at gmail.com>
> *To:* Chris Robinson <fabricator4 at yahoo.com>
> *Cc:* "ubuntu-au at lists.ubuntu.com" <ubuntu-au at lists.ubuntu.com>
> *Sent:* Friday, 30 December 2011 10:36 PM
> *Subject:* Re: Brisbane Install Fest
>
> Yeah it sounds like a good idea but I don't know how useful it will
> actually be. Unfortunately it was someone else's idea, I just happened
> to implement the "download the whole Ubuntu repository and set up a
> cron job to rsync every day" part of it.
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> Unfortunately it seems to be non-trivial:
> http://wiki.debian.org/DakHowTo
>
> There also appears to be a package called Debarchiver:
> http://joysofprogramming.com/install-debarchiver-ubuntu/
>
> I think that mostly what they do is generate the package archive 
> indexes, so that the archives can be used as a software source.
>
> I shall have play with it tonight.

With a bit of iptables magic you should be able to redirect requests to 
the Australian mirrors to a local server running nginx which can serve 
files from a cloned mirror.  Internode supports rsync.

A simpler alternative is to redirect all outbound port 80 traffic via 
squid using iptables.
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