Ubuntu Updates

[Colin Law]

On 22 March 2011 08:38, Kaushal Shriyan <kaushalshriyan at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
> On Tue, Mar 22, 2011 at 1:04 PM, Leo "TheHobbit" Cacciari
> <leothehobbit at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Il 03/22/2011 08:11 AM, Kaushal Shriyan ha scritto:
>> > Hi,
>> >
>> > Is there a way to block updates from global ubuntu mirror and just
>> > point the clients to update from local ubuntu mirror ?
>> >
>> > Thanks
>> >
>> > Kaushal
>> Hi,
>> synaptic and Co. do not know about "local" or "global" mirrors. They
>> only know whatever is written in /etc/apt/source.list
>> If you put there the address of the local mirror instead of the one
>> actually there your system will get its updates from the local mirror as
>> you asked.
>>
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>
> Hi
>
> Is there a way to forcefully redirect the client to Local Ubuntu Mirror ?
> The reason being we do not want to choke Internet bandwidth while visiting
> Global Ubuntu Mirror.

Yes, as Leo said, edit /etc/apt/sources.list (though he mis-typed the
file name).

Colin