[ubuntu-uk] Remote Ubuntu Users

[Alan Pope]

On 12/01/13 14:52, Dan Fish wrote:
> His broadband is damn expensive and sometimes "sudo apt-get update &&
> sudo apt-get -y dist-upgrade" may well use up much of his monthly
> allowance.
> Ironically, it's very cheap to post via snail mail a usb stick back and
> forth! Any ideas how I can keep him up to date (albeit at monthly
> intervals) via this method?
> My google-fu has failed me.
>

It's not just updates he'd miss out on, but also new packages he may 
want to install. You _could_ mirror the entire repository onto your hard 
disk and then copy that to a USB attached drive and post that over. 
Right now the entire repo (binary only) for precise takes up 53GB.

Like this:-

debmirror --nosource -m --passive --host=archive.ubuntu.com 
--root=ubuntu/ --method=http --progress 
--dist=precise,precise-updates,precise-security 
--section=main,restricted,universe,multiverse --arch=i386 
~/ubuntumirror/ubuntu --ignore-release-gpg

He could then point his apt sources.list at the usb stick and install 
packages from it via apt or software centre, as well as update via 
update manager.

Cheers,
-- 
Alan Pope
Engineering Manager

Canonical - Product Strategy
+44 (0) 7973 620 164
alan.pope at canonical.com
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