On Fri, 2008-07-04 at 09:41 +1000, Peter Garrett wrote:
On Wed, 02 Jul 2008 11:45:57 +1000
Leslie Gossner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Oh and i use the US server for al my updates
as the default aussie server (optus) is terribly slow to update and down
a lot more often than i would like.
On Wed, 02 Jul 2008 11:45:57 +1000
Leslie Gossner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Oh and i use the US server for al my updates
as the default aussie server (optus) is terribly slow to update and down
a lot more often than i would like.
Agreed. You can, however, use a number of other Australian
all this talk of downloads has reminded me of something:
how do you deal with downloading upgrades for multiple installs?
I have Ubuntu on 2 machines, and it seems a waste to download the same upgrades
twice. What strategies do people use to avoid this situation?
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On Tue, Jul 1, 2008 at 8:27 PM, Slawek Drabot [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
all this talk of downloads has reminded me of something:
how do you deal with downloading upgrades for multiple installs?
I have Ubuntu on 2 machines, and it seems a waste to download the same
upgrades twice. What
ishwor wrote:
...
One way of doing this is manually.
# apt-get clean;
# aptitude upgrade;
The download packages are locally stored in /var/cache/apt; stay there.
Mount the other box as nfs share (or through fuse/sshfs if you prefer. nfs
requires setup at the other end. sshfs just
On Wed, 2 Jul 2008 05:54:43 am Paul Gear wrote:
ishwor wrote:
...
[ ... ]
A simpler method than NFS would be rsync:
aptitude install rsync # on both systems
cd /var/cache/apt
rsync -av . otherbox:/var/cache/apt # replace /var/cache/apt
On Wed, 2 Jul 2008 07:38:53 am ishwor wrote:
On Wed, 2 Jul 2008 05:54:43 am Paul Gear wrote:
ishwor wrote:
[ ... ]
Or, just uprade; yes as Paul writes. So essentially
instead of
# dpkg -i ;
^ *.deb
the op can do
# aptitude upgrade
in the second box.
So, how's everyone's
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Slawek Drabot wrote:
| all this talk of downloads has reminded me of something:
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| how do you deal with downloading upgrades for multiple installs?
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| I have Ubuntu on 2 machines, and it seems a waste to download the same
upgrades twice. What
