Or 90/110K per day per computer for Precise. I guess what was getting me is the additional 6-7MB during install or first update:
http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/precise/universe/source/ 4.8M/5.9M http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/precise/main/source/ 912K/1.1M On 24 July 2013 09:31, Scott Kitterman <ubu...@kitterman.com> wrote: > On Tuesday, July 23, 2013 08:21:40 AM Jordon Bedwell wrote: >> On Tue, Jul 23, 2013 at 6:32 AM, Scott Kitterman <ubu...@kitterman.com> > wrote: >> > Assuming add-apt-repository was installed by default, it's close. I think >> > something like this might be reasonable (imagine some policykit or >> > whatever it is called now magic here): >> > >> > $ sudo apt-get source hello >> > Reading package lists... Done >> > Building dependency tree >> > Reading state information... Done >> > E: You must put some 'source' URIs in your sources.list >> > Would you like 'source' URIs to be added? (y/N) >> > Y >> > deb-src lines have been added to your sources.list. >> > ... >> > Get:9 http://archive.ubuntu.com saucy/main Sources [1,001 kB] >> > Get:10 http://archive.ubuntu.com saucy/restricted Sources [6,578 B] >> > Get:11 http://archive.ubuntu.com saucy/universe Sources [6,071 kB] >> > >> > In other words, it's, I think, possible to make it roughly as easy as it >> > is >> > now to get source without having the sources.list "cluttered". For users >> > of our releases, I doubt it saves much, but that would be a way to do it >> > that both avoids whatever amount of bandwidth usage is involved until the >> > user opts in to it, but preserves ready access to the source that I think >> > is important. >> Depending on how clever and one-off you want to be you could also just >> give them the http url to the source as well. It shouldn't be that >> hard to guess since apt already has most of the information needed to >> just generate the URL from a chosen apt server in the normal deb. >> This would allow for one-off downloads (for example somebody needs to >> look at the way debian does some of it's compiles so they can >> replicate without a package so they grab the source for nginx -- >> that's a one-off IMO if they would never use any other source >> package.) >> >> Though I personally like a default command that would be something >> like add-apt-default-sources so you can also give them the ability to >> run that command and disable sources too (but you can already do that >> via the GUI and terminal by editing /etc/apt/sources.list and such.) > > Before we run off and expend a lot more effort on this, I'd like to see > something other than handwaving that this is really is a significant issue. > > /ubuntu/dists/raring-security/main/source > > [ ] Release 24-Jul-2013 01:16 106 > [ ] Sources.bz2 24-Jul-2013 01:16 32K > [ ] Sources.gz 24-Jul-2013 01:16 38K > > For end users, how much is really downloaded? > > /ubuntu/dists/raring-updates/main/source > > [ ] Release 24-Jul-2013 01:16 105 > [ ] Sources.bz2 24-Jul-2013 01:16 50K > [ ] Sources.gz 24-Jul-2013 01:16 62K > > /ubuntu/dists/raring-updates/universe/source > > [ ] Release 24-Jul-2013 01:16 109 > [ ] Sources.bz2 24-Jul-2013 01:16 64K > [ ] Sources.gz 24-Jul-2013 01:16 77K > > It doesn't seem like a lot. > > Scott K > > -- > ubuntu-devel mailing list > ubuntu-de...@lists.ubuntu.com > Modify settings or unsubscribe at: > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel -- Daniel J Blueman -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss
