[ubuntu-uk] Remote Ubuntu Users

[Dan Fish]

On 13/01/13 22:24, Tony Pursell wrote:
>
>
> On 13 January 2013 21:57, alan c <aeclist at candt.waitrose.com 
> <mailto:aeclist at candt.waitrose.com>> wrote:
>
>     On 13/01/13 02:14, Alan Pope wrote:
>
>         On 12/01/13 14:52, Dan Fish wrote:
>
>             His broadband is damn expensive and sometimes "sudo
>             apt-get update &&
>             sudo apt-get -y dist-upgrade" may well use up much of his
>             monthly
>             allowance.
>             Ironically, it's very cheap to post via snail mail a usb
>             stick back and
>             forth! Any ideas how I can keep him up to date (albeit at
>             monthly
>             intervals) via this method?
>             My google-fu has failed me.
>
>
>         It's not just updates he'd miss out on, but also new packages
>         he may
>         want to install. You _could_ mirror the entire repository onto
>         your hard
>         disk and then copy that to a USB attached drive and post that
>         over.
>         Right now the entire repo (binary only) for precise takes up 53GB.
>
>         Like this:-
>
>         debmirror --nosource -m --passive --host=archive.ubuntu.com
>         <http://archive.ubuntu.com>
>         --root=ubuntu/ --method=http --progress
>         --dist=precise,precise-updates,precise-security
>         --section=main,restricted,universe,multiverse --arch=i386
>         ~/ubuntumirror/ubuntu --ignore-release-gpg
>
>         He could then point his apt sources.list at the usb stick and
>         install
>         packages from it via apt or software centre, as well as update via
>         update manager.
>
>         Cheers,
>
>
>
>     Maplin are selling a 64 GB USB stick  for something like 30 pounds
>     I think
>
>
> A bit cheaper from E-Buyer - but you have to pay for delivery, of course.
>
> http://www.ebuyer.com/search?a00413=64&subcat=3618&cat=458
>
> (I don't have shares in them :-)
>
> Tony
>
>
Thanks for the advice. I think mirroring the repo is going to be the way 
forwards.
BW
Dan
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