Re: broadband with linux mirror
Owen Townend wrote: ... I was previously with OptusNet Cable when living with my parents: the noticable (so far) mirror that Optus has that iiNet doesn't is Sourceforge. I don't know how it goes when you're an Optusnet customer, but from iiNet, Optustnet's SF.net mirror doesn't even work half the time, and i get better and quicker access setting my preferred mirror to be one on the U.S. West Coast. Paul smime.p7s Description: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature -- ubuntu-au mailing list ubuntu-au@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-au
Re: broadband with linux mirror
On 01/07/2008, Paul Gear [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Owen Townend wrote: ... I was previously with OptusNet Cable when living with my parents: the noticable (so far) mirror that Optus has that iiNet doesn't is Sourceforge. I don't know how it goes when you're an Optusnet customer, but from iiNet, Optustnet's SF.net mirror doesn't even work half the time, and i get better and quicker access setting my preferred mirror to be one on the U.S. West Coast. Paul Hey, When using optus cable sourceforge always picked the optus mirror for me (provided the file was available on it) and I never had any issues with it. Since using iiNet adsl sourceforge has _never_ chosen the Optus mirror for me and I have had no reason to manually override its choice. cheers, Owen. -- ubuntu-au mailing list ubuntu-au@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-au
Ubuntu upgrades
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? -- ubuntu-au mailing list ubuntu-au@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-au
Re: Ubuntu upgrades
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 strategies do people use to avoid this situation? In short - http://packages.ubuntu.com/hardy/net/apt-cacher-ng -- Harrison Conlin -- ubuntu-au mailing list ubuntu-au@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-au
Re: Ubuntu upgrades
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 requires fuse+sshd at the other end)- # mount -t nfs other.box.ip.addy:/some/exported.share /mnt/local.dir/ # cp /var/cache/apt/*.deb /mnt/local.dir/ 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 # with $PWD if you prefer Now go to other box- # cd /some/exported.share/ # dpkg -i *.deb; Now this will get you in big trouble. What if you have different packages on the different boxes? You'll get dependency problems. The simple thing to do after you've rsynced the apt cache is just upgrade normally - it will use the cached files instead of downloading them again. Paul smime.p7s Description: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature -- ubuntu-au mailing list ubuntu-au@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-au
Re: Ubuntu upgrades
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 # with $PWD if you prefer @OP - Or as Paul mentions - rsync ^_^ Now go to other box- # cd /some/exported.share/ # dpkg -i *.deb; Now this will get you in big trouble. What if you have different packages on the different boxes? You'll get dependency problems. The FYI Paul, the OP mentions that he/she is upgrading both boxes simultaneously but do not want to expend the effort/cost of downloading at both the places. And hence, both the boxen have the needed for exactly the same packages. That is what I thought earlier and wrote straight off in one go err, without thinking too much. ^_^ Or, perhaps I haven't been clear about - Bear in mind, the dependencies have to be exact in both the machines. :) Basically it means - a) Needed packages for box A - foo1.deb, foo2.deb, foo3.deb b) Needed packages for box B - foo1.deb, foo3.deb, foo4.deb Package upgraded via our method (both nfs+rsync) here is foo1.deb. Our manual drudgery sucks anyway compared to the harrisony's. moo! :D simple thing to do after you've rsynced the apt cache is just upgrade normally - it will use the cached files instead of downloading them again. Or, just uprade; yes as Paul writes. So essentially instead of # dpkg -i; the op can do # aptitude upgrade in the second box. So, how's everyone's morning going? If I've been rude a bit then I am sorry. My name is Ishwor. Nice meeting you all Ubunturos! ;) cheers -- ubuntu-au mailing list ubuntu-au@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-au
Re: Ubuntu upgrades
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 morning going? If I've been rude a bit then I am woah! Felt like I just barged in randomly!:D sorry. My name is Ishwor. Nice meeting you all Ubunturos! ;) cheers cheers -- ubuntu-au mailing list ubuntu-au@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-au
Re: broadband with linux mirror
I think you might find that Optusnet no longer hosts a Sourceforge mirror - the only Aussie one is Internode On Tue, Jul 1, 2008 at 4:50 PM, Owen Townend [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 01/07/2008, Paul Gear [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Owen Townend wrote: ... I was previously with OptusNet Cable when living with my parents: the noticable (so far) mirror that Optus has that iiNet doesn't is Sourceforge. I don't know how it goes when you're an Optusnet customer, but from iiNet, Optustnet's SF.net mirror doesn't even work half the time, and i get better and quicker access setting my preferred mirror to be one on the U.S. West Coast. Paul Hey, When using optus cable sourceforge always picked the optus mirror for me (provided the file was available on it) and I never had any issues with it. Since using iiNet adsl sourceforge has _never_ chosen the Optus mirror for me and I have had no reason to manually override its choice. cheers, Owen. -- ubuntu-au mailing list ubuntu-au@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-au -- Regards, Martin Martin Visser -- ubuntu-au mailing list ubuntu-au@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-au
Re: broadband with linux mirror
On 02/07/2008, Martin Visser [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I think you might find that Optusnet no longer hosts a Sourceforge mirror - the only Aussie one is Internode Hey, That might explain it... cheers, Owen. -- ubuntu-au mailing list ubuntu-au@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-au
Re: Ubuntu upgrades
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Slawek Drabot 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 strategies do people use to avoid this situation? | A combination of squid-proxy in transparent mode (using heap LFUDA with a large maximum file size, and large data store) as well as apt-proxy pointing to a local mirror. Combine the two, and bandwidth issues for Linux upgrades are moot. I run several locations with between 20 and 100 Ubuntu workstations in them, all with this setup. None of them face any major dramas come upgrade time. Similarly, I use etherboot/netboot to do workstation installs, which then pulls the data direct from the apt-cache, meaning that installed workstations have the latest stuff direct on disk, rather than installed from CD, and then doing updates afterwards. - -Dan -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFIat+FeFJDv0P9Qb8RAjjMAJ9soJT7gzFCBSeR2aqktKV8UOl7FwCgn6S1 2PJXcuoIjH4O1RFJDHnTBkg= =iqwc -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- ubuntu-au mailing list ubuntu-au@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-au
workspace behaviour
Hi Guys Been noticing something interesting on one of my ubuntu pc's. It's the only one on 24/7. Basically if left alone for some time it switches workspaces by itself. It did it this morning as I watched. No intervention from me. Is this meant to be a feature or some oddity on my end? James -- ubuntu-au mailing list ubuntu-au@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-au
Re: workspace behaviour
On Wed, Jul 2, 2008 at 12:37 PM, James Takac [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Guys Been noticing something interesting on one of my ubuntu pc's. It's the only one on 24/7. Basically if left alone for some time it switches workspaces by itself. It did it this morning as I watched. No intervention from me. Is this meant to be a feature or some oddity on my end? Not sure if this would be even remotely related, but I've seen some strange things happen since I have an IR receiver on my PC, and occasionally other IR equipment (most notably IR controlled micro helipcopters) will be translated as a remote signal which will make things happen (in my case, volume changes, bringing up logout dialog). Cheers, Matt -- Matthew Vermeulen http://www.matthewv.id.au/ MatthewV @ irc.freenode.net -- ubuntu-au mailing list ubuntu-au@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-au
