On 31/12/11 12:46, Chris Robinson wrote:
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*From:* Dave Hall <dave.h...@skwashd.com>
*To:* ubuntu-au@lists.ubuntu.com
*Sent:* Saturday, 31 December 2011 11:16 AM
*Subject:* Re: Brisbane Install Fest
With a bit of iptables magic you should be able to redirect requests
to the Australian mirrors to a local server running nginx which can
serve files from a cloned mirror. Internode supports rsync.
A simpler alternative is to redirect all outbound port 80 traffic via
squid using iptables.
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The problem is the indexing, which is the important bit for
dependencies, and I suspect for working out which packages need
updating. Apart from that you just need to give the correct address
for the various repositories in the 'other software' tab of software
sources.
Oh, and by the way; if we manage to get this working, then it will be
important to change it back after the new system is updated and before
the user takes it home!
That's why you do it with iptables (and possibly some dummy dns entries
using dnsmasq). If you rsync the repos you don't have to worry about
building the indexes and you can update only the bits which have changed
since the initial sync.
Cheers
Dave
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