apt mirror
Ankur Sharma
yowlanku at gmail.com
Sat Apr 12 05:59:40 BST 2008
I wonder what would be faster , getting a external hdd in US and shipping it
back to NP with full repo for first time or download whole 30-40gb here :).
Anyway we can ask Pawan sir to provide us with space at once.
On Sat, Apr 12, 2008 at 5:48 AM, Jwalanta Shrestha <jwalanta at gmail.com>
wrote:
> i seriously doubt this. having a apt mirror is a matter of syncing around
> 30-40gb of data, which changes often too. isps here sell 64kbps in the name
> of "broadband". u think they'll provide bandwidth to sync that huge volume
> for nothing??
>
> what we can do is have apt-cache or apt-proxy sort of things. instead of
> syncing, it'd fetch the packages on demand and store it locally. after that,
> within npix bandwidth wont be a problem.
>
> ~jwalanta
>
>
>
> On 4/12/08, Bikal KC <bikal at ubuntu.org.np> wrote:
> >
> > Shishir Jha wrote:
> > > It would be a better if we could go and talk to few people out there,
> > before
> > > formally proposing them. I know for a fact that Pawan shakya, Manager
> > there,
> > > uses ubuntu at his home. so that will be plus point for us. So i think
> > > before preparing a proposal, we better talk and see if they are
> > interested.
> > > So, Ankur, when do you reckon we pay them a visit.
> > >
> > > Cheers
> >
> > Hey Shishir!!! Good to see you put some ideas forward.
> >
> > This is a really cool idea.. Let's get this apt
> > repo thingy rolling for Nepal!
> >
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