-----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