[Ubuntu-ZW] 10.04!

[O. Sinclair]

Yes you got me right - that is of course one way of doing it, I was just 
thinking if the "update-notifier" and following process would keep the 
local mirrors (YoAfrica) or swap to the "official" Zimbabwe repos.

Cheers,
Sinclair

Samuel Mukoti wrote:
> If I get you correctly,  you're asking that when someone has changed 
> their sources.list file to point to the local mirror (YoAfrica) if they 
> do un upgrade will it maintain the correct servers in sources files?
> 
> I've done in a couple of times,  upgrading various servers to the new 
> and latest (k)ubuntu,  it works for me coz I always just hand edit the 
> sources files to point to the new version, before I do an "apt 
> dist-upgrade"
> 
> Regards
> 
> Samuel Mukoti
> Melivo Business Systems
> 
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> 
> On 04 May,2010, at 9:24 AM, "O. Sinclair" <o.sinclair at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> Has anyone tried doing an online update? I am wondering if the update
>> keeps the local repos or replace them with "standard" Zimbabwe repos -
>> in which case one might even fail or have to leave computer online for 
>> ever.
>>
>> Sinclair
>>
>> Kalpesh Thaker wrote:
>>> Hi Everyone,
>>>
>>> Just wanted to let you know, that the new 10.04 iso images have been
>>> uploaded to our local repository server.
>>> The local repo has also been serving 10.04 updates for the last month or
>>> so... and it is serving both x64 and x86 software
>>> packages.
>>>
>>> Apparently, Ubuntu 10.04 was held back from release for a couple of
>>> hours yesterday.. as they had found a bug in one of the grub packages.
>>>
>>> To download ISO images from the server, check:
>>>
>>> http://www.ubuntu.org.zw/node/5
>>>
>>> To connect to the local repository, check:
>>>
>>> http://www.ubuntu.org.zw/node/6
>>>
>>> For more information on Ubuntu 10.04, please see:
>>>
>>> http://www.ubuntu.com/products/whatisubuntu/1004features
>>>
>>> cheers
>>>
>>> kalpesh.
>>>
>>
>>
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