[ubuntu-uk] ubuntu-uk Digest, Vol 27, Issue 47

Thu Jul 26 12:16:37 BST 2007

Hmm, that hard disc idea sounds good in principal, but then you've got
someone who is in the position of suddenly having to worry about DOA
products etc etc - a complete headache waiting to happen :\
Not that I'm nay-saying or anything, but in reality it sounds a bit like
hard work to me

Pete


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> From: Alec Wright <alecjw at gmail.com>
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> On Wed, 2007-07-25 at 20:57 +0100, Ian Pascoe wrote:
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> > And of course the beauty of HDDs is that they're R/W, so you store the
> > up to date images on a server and when the HDDs go out you just copy
> > across the latest image.
>
> That just gave me an idea... (if you're sane you'll stop reading now)
> Canonical could sell external hard disks with version(s),
> architecture(s) and (what do you call those things which main,
> restricted, universe and multiverse are?)(s) which you choose on them.
> After you've chosen what you want (eg main and restricted for feisty and
> dapper), they recommend the right size hard drive for you. They put the
> repos on the hard drive and send it to you.
> Then perhaps you could send it back to them and them pay them a bit to
> update it...
> Except there'd probably not be much demand for this. It would only be
> useful in large businesses, which would almost undoubtedly have an
> internet connection. Oh well... My idea sucks... Live with it.
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> Date: Wed, 25 Jul 2007 22:18:58 +0100
> From: Alan Pope <alan at popey.com>
> Subject: Re: [ubuntu-uk] Contents of ubuntu-uk digest...
> To: British Ubuntu Talk <ubuntu-uk at lists.ubuntu.com>
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> Hi Alec,
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> On Wed, 2007-07-25 at 21:10 +0100, Alec Wright wrote:
> > On Wed, 2007-07-25 at 20:57 +0100, Ian Pascoe wrote:
> >
> > > And of course the beauty of HDDs is that they're R/W, so you store the
> > > up to date images on a server and when the HDDs go out you just copy
> > > across the latest image.
> >
> > That just gave me an idea... (if you're sane you'll stop reading now)
> > Canonical could sell external hard disks with version(s),
> > architecture(s) and (what do you call those things which main,
> > restricted, universe and multiverse are?)(s) which you choose on them.
> > After you've chosen what you want (eg main and restricted for feisty and
> > dapper), they recommend the right size hard drive for you. They put the
> > repos on the hard drive and send it to you.
> > Then perhaps you could send it back to them and them pay them a bit to
> > update it...
> > Except there'd probably not be much demand for this. It would only be
> > useful in large businesses, which would almost undoubtedly have an
> > internet connection. Oh well... My idea sucks... Live with it.
> >
> >
>
> Er, that's exactly what I proposed when I first brought this up, only
> not Canonical specifically doing it. :)
>
> Cheersm
> Al.
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> Message: 3
> Date: Wed, 25 Jul 2007 22:32:44 +0100
> From: Alan Pope <alan at popey.com>
> Subject: Re: [ubuntu-uk] Repos on a Disk
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> Hi,
>
> On Tue, 2007-07-24 at 18:40 +0100, Ian Pascoe wrote:
> > Hi-de-hi
> >
>
> Ho-de-ho.
>
> > Popey floated an idea a little while back about putting the entire
> Ubuntu
> > Repository onto a portable HD for use by those who don't have the
> ability
> > to connect to the Internet or only over dial-up.
> >
>
> That's it. I have it on my to-do list along with a zillion other
> things :)
>
> > Just to bring to everyones attention that the apt-get series of commands
> > appears to have been enhanced to do exactly this apt-get mirror for
> example.
>
> apt-mirror is the command I was using, it's been around for some time,
> and whilst there are a few bugs, it's pretty good at doing what I
> planned.
>
> When I brought it up there was some negative comments, so I kinda went a
> bit cold on the idea. The were suggestions that it wouldn't be _that_
> useful, but I'd be happy to talk about it again and iron out the issues.
>
> Cheers,
> Al.
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