Move to 8.04, Hardy Heron

[Derek Broughton]

Derek Broughton wrote:

> Michael.Coll-Barth at VerizonWireless.com wrote:
> 
>> I am going to try this.  Anything to look out for?  If this mucks me up,
>> I'll just build it from scratch.  I was looking for the path of least
>> resistance and damage to the system in terms of user settings and files.

> There is another method that creates a proxy server (apt-proxy, perhaps?)
> where everybody points to the local server, and the local server serves up
> packages from its repository if available, or gets them from upstream if
> not.  That might be more suitable for you.  As I said, there are a lot of
> similar ways to do this.

Just ran into a thread on the kubuntu list, where responder pointed to
apt-cacher:

http://www.debuntu.org/how-to-set-up-a-repository-cache-with-apt-cacher

This might be a better solution for you (plus there's that nice howto, which
means I wouldn't have to write it!)
-- 
derek