Re: Ubuntu upgrades

2008-07-04 Thread Karl Goetz
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 wou

Re: Ubuntu upgrades

2008-07-03 Thread Peter Garrett
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

Re: Ubuntu upgrades

2008-07-01 Thread Daniel Mons
-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 strateg

Re: Ubuntu upgrades

2008-07-01 Thread Leslie Gossner
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? >

Re: Ubuntu upgrades

2008-07-01 Thread ishwor
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 eve

Re: Ubuntu upgrades

2008-07-01 Thread ishwor
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 >

Re: Ubuntu upgrades

2008-07-01 Thread Paul Gear
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 j

Re: Ubuntu upgrades

2008-07-01 Thread ishwor
Hi Slawek, On Tue, 1 Jul 2008 07:57:01 pm 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 strategie

Re: Ubuntu upgrades

2008-07-01 Thread Harrison Conlin
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

Ubuntu upgrades

2008-07-01 Thread Slawek Drabot
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

Re: Ubuntu upgrades

2008-01-13 Thread Leslie Gossner
Karl-Dieter Oelrichs wrote: > Please advise: > Upgrades for e.g. from Ubuntu Vs7.04 to 7.10. > Can they be downloaded from the net. If so how big are > the files. Since I am not connected to the net (I got > a temporary connection via a G3 phone)Lengthy > downloads would be impractical at my presen

Re: Ubuntu upgrades

2008-01-13 Thread Blindraven
I have 20 or so Cd's left if you would like one mailed to you. Let me know off list. On Jan 13, 2008 3:33 AM, Karl-Dieter Oelrichs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Please advise: > Upgrades for e.g. from Ubuntu Vs7.04 to 7.10. > Can they be downloaded from the net. If so how big are > the files. Sinc

Ubuntu upgrades

2008-01-12 Thread Karl-Dieter Oelrichs
Please advise: Upgrades for e.g. from Ubuntu Vs7.04 to 7.10. Can they be downloaded from the net. If so how big are the files. Since I am not connected to the net (I got a temporary connection via a G3 phone)Lengthy downloads would be impractical at my present location. Thanks Karl Make the