[ubuntu-uk] Remote Repos

Seif Attar attar.saif at gmail.com
Sun Jul 29 02:41:44 BST 2007


On Sat, 2007-07-28 at 08:35 +0100, Matthew Larsen wrote:
> whoa hang on, let me see if I got this right
> 
> client has multiple ubuntu machines to update
> each machine updates seperately over internet and kills bw bill
> suggestion: is there a better way?
> 
> Wouldnt it be easier for there to be a gateway which downloads a repo
> if requested and then just caches it?
> 

That's what I thought as well.
I was trying to do a similar thing a few years ago, and in the end used
apt-proxy dont remember the details now, but if you have more than one
ubuntu machine update regularly, i think that is the way to go. but I
see advantages in Ian's idea.

Peace,
Seif Attar




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