[ubuntu-uk] Remote Ubuntu Users

[alan c]

On 13/01/13 02:14, Alan Pope wrote:
> 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,
>


Maplin are selling a 64 GB USB stick  for something like 30 pounds I think

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alan cocks