Brisbane Install Fest

[Jared Norris]

On 31 December 2011 14:01, Chris Robinson <fabricator4 at yahoo.com> wrote:

>   ------------------------------
> *From:* Jared Norris <jrnorris at gmail.com>
> *To:* Chris Robinson <fabricator4 at yahoo.com>
> *Cc:* Dave Hall <dave.hall at skwashd.com>; "ubuntu-au at lists.ubuntu.com" <
> ubuntu-au at lists.ubuntu.com>
> *Sent:* Saturday, 31 December 2011 12:56 PM
>
> *Subject:* Re: Brisbane Install Fest
>
>
> No idea, I'm a simple end user who knows enough to get himself into
> trouble and occasionally back out of it ;)
>
> ------------------------------------------------------
>
> Ok, see if you have the following directory:
>
> /media/UbuntuAUReposito/Ubuntu/archive/indices/
>
> The contents should look at bit like this:
>
> [image: [   ]] override.oneiric-security.main <http://www.mirror.aarnet.edu.au/pub/ubuntu/archive/indices/override.oneiric-security.main>                        31-Dec-2011 00:18    0
> [image: [   ]] override.oneiric-security.main.debian-installer <http://www.mirror.aarnet.edu.au/pub/ubuntu/archive/indices/override.oneiric-security.main.debian-installer>       31-Dec-2011 00:18   23K
> [image: [   ]] override.oneiric-security.main.src <http://www.mirror.aarnet.edu.au/pub/ubuntu/archive/indices/override.oneiric-security.main.src>                    31-Dec-2011 00:18    0
> [image: [   ]] override.oneiric-security.multiverse <http://www.mirror.aarnet.edu.au/pub/ubuntu/archive/indices/override.oneiric-security.multiverse>                  31-Dec-2011 00:18    0
> [image: [   ]] override.oneiric-security.multiverse.src <http://www.mirror.aarnet.edu.au/pub/ubuntu/archive/indices/override.oneiric-security.multiverse.src>              31-Dec-2011 00:18    0
> [image: [   ]] override.oneiric-security.restricted <http://www.mirror.aarnet.edu.au/pub/ubuntu/archive/indices/override.oneiric-security.restricted>                  31-Dec-2011 00:18    0
> [image: [   ]] override.oneiric-security.restricted.src <http://www.mirror.aarnet.edu.au/pub/ubuntu/archive/indices/override.oneiric-security.restricted.src>              31-Dec-2011 00:18    0
> [image: [   ]] override.oneiric-security.universe <http://www.mirror.aarnet.edu.au/pub/ubuntu/archive/indices/override.oneiric-security.universe>                    31-Dec-2011 00:18    0
> [image: [   ]] override.oneiric-security.universe.debian-installer <http://www.mirror.aarnet.edu.au/pub/ubuntu/archive/indices/override.oneiric-security.universe.debian-installer>   31-Dec-2011 00:18   71
> [image: [   ]] override.oneiric-security.universe.src <http://www.mirror.aarnet.edu.au/pub/ubuntu/archive/indices/override.oneiric-security.universe.src>                31-Dec-2011 00:18    0
> [image: [   ]] override.oneiric-updates.extra.main <http://www.mirror.aarnet.edu.au/pub/ubuntu/archive/indices/override.oneiric-updates.extra.main>                   31-Dec-2011 00:18    0
> [image: [   ]] override.oneiric-updates.extra.multiverse <http://www.mirror.aarnet.edu.au/pub/ubuntu/archive/indices/override.oneiric-updates.extra.multiverse>             31-Dec-2011 00:18    0
> [image: [   ]] override.oneiric-updates.extra.restricted <http://www.mirror.aarnet.edu.au/pub/ubuntu/archive/indices/override.oneiric-updates.extra.restricted>             31-Dec-2011 00:18    0
> [image: [   ]] override.oneiric-updates.extra.universe <http://www.mirror.aarnet.edu.au/pub/ubuntu/archive/indices/override.oneiric-updates.extra.universe>               31-Dec-2011 00:18    0
> [image: [   ]] override.oneiric-updates.main <http://www.mirror.aarnet.edu.au/pub/ubuntu/archive/indices/override.oneiric-updates.main>
>  31-Dec-2011 00:18    0
> [image: [   ]] override.oneiric-updates.main.debian-installer <http://www.mirror.aarnet.edu.au/pub/ubuntu/archive/indices/override.oneiric-updates.main.debian-installer>        31-Dec-2011 00:18   23K
> [image: [   ]] override.oneiric-updates.main.src <http://www.mirror.aarnet.edu.au/pub/ubuntu/archive/indices/override.oneiric-updates.main.src>                     31-Dec-2011 00:18    0
> [image: [   ]] override.oneiric-updates.multiverse <http://www.mirror.aarnet.edu.au/pub/ubuntu/archive/indices/override.oneiric-updates.multiverse>                   31-Dec-2011 00:18    0
> [image: [   ]] override.oneiric-updates.multiverse.src <http://www.mirror.aarnet.edu.au/pub/ubuntu/archive/indices/override.oneiric-updates.multiverse.src>               31-Dec-2011 00:18    0
> [image: [   ]] override.oneiric-updates.restricted <http://www.mirror.aarnet.edu.au/pub/ubuntu/archive/indices/override.oneiric-updates.restricted>                   31-Dec-2011 00:18    0
> [image: [   ]] override.oneiric-updates.restricted.src <http://www.mirror.aarnet.edu.au/pub/ubuntu/archive/indices/override.oneiric-updates.restricted.src>               31-Dec-2011 00:18    0
> [image: [   ]] override.oneiric-updates.universe <http://www.mirror.aarnet.edu.au/pub/ubuntu/archive/indices/override.oneiric-updates.universe>
>  31-Dec-2011 00:18    0
> [image: [   ]] override.oneiric-updates.universe.debian-installer <http://www.mirror.aarnet.edu.au/pub/ubuntu/archive/indices/override.oneiric-updates.universe.debian-installer>    31-Dec-2011 00:18  1.7K
> [image: [   ]] override.oneiric-updates.universe.src <http://www.mirror.aarnet.edu.au/pub/ubuntu/archive/indices/override.oneiric-updates.universe.src>                 31-Dec-2011 00:18    0
> [image: [   ]] override.oneiric.extra.main <http://www.mirror.aarnet.edu.au/pub/ubuntu/archive/indices/override.oneiric.extra.main>                           31-Dec-2011 00:18  3.5M
> [image: [   ]] override.oneiric.extra.multiverse <http://www.mirror.aarnet.edu.au/pub/ubuntu/archive/indices/override.oneiric.extra.multiverse>                     31-Dec-2011 00:18  2.8M
> [image: [   ]] override.oneiric.extra.restricted <http://www.mirror.aarnet.edu.au/pub/ubuntu/archive/indices/override.oneiric.extra.restricted>                     31-Dec-2011 00:18  2.8M
> [image: [   ]] override.oneiric.extra.universe <http://www.mirror.aarnet.edu.au/pub/ubuntu/archive/indices/override.oneiric.extra.universe>                       31-Dec-2011 00:18  5.2M
> [image: [   ]] override.oneiric.main <http://www.mirror.aarnet.edu.au/pub/ubuntu/archive/indices/override.oneiric.main>                                 31-Dec-2011 00:18  245K
>
> [image: [   ]] override.oneiric.main.debian-installer <http://www.mirror.aarnet.edu.au/pub/ubuntu/archive/indices/override.oneiric.main.debian-installer>                31-Dec-2011 00:18   23K
> [image: [   ]] override.oneiric.main.src <http://www.mirror.aarnet.edu.au/pub/ubuntu/archive/indices/override.oneiric.main.src>                             31-Dec-2011 00:18   71K
> [image: [   ]] override.oneiric.multiverse <http://www.mirror.aarnet.edu.au/pub/ubuntu/archive/indices/override.oneiric.multiverse>                           31-Dec-2011 00:18   26K
> [image: [   ]] override.oneiric.multiverse.debian-installer <http://www.mirror.aarnet.edu.au/pub/ubuntu/archive/indices/override.oneiric.multiverse.debian-installer>          31-Dec-2011 00:18    0
> [image: [   ]] override.oneiric.multiverse.src <http://www.mirror.aarnet.edu.au/pub/ubuntu/archive/indices/override.oneiric.multiverse.src>                       31-Dec-2011 00:18   14K
> [image: [   ]] override.oneiric.restricted <http://www.mirror.aarnet.edu.au/pub/ubuntu/archive/indices/override.oneiric.restricted>                           31-Dec-2011 00:18  872
> [image: [   ]] override.oneiric.restricted.debian-installer <http://www.mirror.aarnet.edu.au/pub/ubuntu/archive/indices/override.oneiric.restricted.debian-installer>
>  31-Dec-2011 00:18    0
> [image: [   ]] override.oneiric.restricted.src <http://www.mirror.aarnet.edu.au/pub/ubuntu/archive/indices/override.oneiric.restricted.src>                       31-Dec-2011 00:18  483
> [image: [   ]] override.oneiric.universe <http://www.mirror.aarnet.edu.au/pub/ubuntu/archive/indices/override.oneiric.universe>                             31-Dec-2011 00:18  1.0M
> [image: [   ]] override.oneiric.universe.debian-installer <http://www.mirror.aarnet.edu.au/pub/ubuntu/archive/indices/override.oneiric.universe.debian-installer>            31-Dec-2011 00:18  9.1K
> [image: [   ]] override.oneiric.universe.src <http://www.mirror.aarnet.edu.au/pub/ubuntu/archive/indices/override.oneiric.universe.src>                         31-Dec-2011 00:18  396K
>
>
>
> ad infinitum (or nearly so).  I can't see anything in that command that will actually limit it to one or
> two releases.  Did you _really_ get the whole thing
>
>
Not quite ad infinitum but there are 1178 items in that folder that look
similar to your list.


> If you've really got the indices (which I think this stuff is) then it
> might be worth doing the test as I outlined, and see if you can update from
> it instead of the normal aarnet repos.
>
> Chris
>

I don't have a webserver set up and it needs http or ftp access for apt-get
to work it would seem from my brief tests.

-- 
Regards,

Jared Norris JP(Qual) BBehSc(Psych)
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/JaredNorris
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