<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12pt"><div><br></div> <div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> <div style="font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; font-size: 12pt;"> <font face="Arial" size="2"> <hr size="1"> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">From:</span></b> Dave Hall <dave.hall@skwashd.com><br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> ubuntu-au@lists.ubuntu.com <br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Saturday, 31 December 2011 11:16 AM<br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> Re: Brisbane Install Fest<br> </font> <br><meta http-equiv="x-dns-prefetch-control" content="off"><div id="yiv1270426932">
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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.<br>
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A simpler alternative is to redirect all outbound port 80 traffic
via squid using iptables.<br>
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</div><meta http-equiv="x-dns-prefetch-control" content="on"><br>_____________________________________<br><br>The problem is the indexing, which is the important bit for dependencies, and I suspect for working out which packages need updating. Apart from that you just need to give the correct address for the various repositories in the 'other software' tab of software sources.<br><br>Oh, and by the way; if we manage to get this working, then it will be important to change it back after the new system is updated and before the user takes it home!<br><br>Chris<br> </div> </div> </div></body></html>