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[Matthew Wild]

On 7/25/07, spep at kaygroth.plus.com <spep at kaygroth.plus.com> wrote:
>
> The 'Repo on external drives' idea is superb, i often want to install
> things at work, which is a secure network and hence we cant have internet
> access to not secured machines, would also be better for big sites IE
> schools/businesses who dont want to have their proxys loaded with small
> .debs (think WSUS). Does anybody know the kind of sizes the repos are?


About 30GB, or so I was told...

As
> to price, buying from and normal retail outlet will be expensive, somebody
> must have a trade account at a cash'n'carry somewhere?
>
> Steven Pepperell
>


I know someone who lives in another country with only dial-up access to the
internet. While it is of course possible for him to order a CD from shipit,
Ubuntu is still only supplied with a basic set of applications.

Instead I am sending him a CD by post, along with a custom DVD of packages.
I wrote a small script to parse the Ubuntu popcon results, and select the
top N packages that fit into a specified capacity. I then passed these to
'aptitude download' which will grab the debs, which can then be used by
AptOnCD. This way I managed to build myself a DVD containing pretty much
most of the commonly installed packages.

I even made a copy for myself, for when I take my laptop on the road... it's
really handy :D Of course the obvious benefit of a HDD is greater capacity,
and you can update it whenever necessary. Still, I just wanted to share my
story :)

Matthew.
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