

- #TUMBLEWEED GIF TRANSPARENT UPDATE#
- #TUMBLEWEED GIF TRANSPARENT ARCHIVE#
- #TUMBLEWEED GIF TRANSPARENT FULL#
- #TUMBLEWEED GIF TRANSPARENT SOFTWARE#

#TUMBLEWEED GIF TRANSPARENT SOFTWARE#
#TUMBLEWEED GIF TRANSPARENT UPDATE#
This slightly complicates upgrades because update-manager only shows the update button when it can connect to, but that's easily worked around:

For lucid, I chose to run this on a private network - there was a separate WiFi network for Internet access. At this point, you pick between providing Internet access as well (which may result in some poorly-configured machines upgrading over the Internet) or doing it all offline (which makes sense in bandwidth-starved South Africa). A laptop with 1TB external hard drive ran the mirror. I took a 24port switch and a pile of flyleads. Something like -include '*10.04*'.iso' -exclude '*.iso' will give you a quick and dirty partial mirror.Īs to the network. The CD and DVD repos can easily be mirrored with rsync. It takes a while on the first run, but once you have a mirror, updating it is quite efficient. You can easily create a partial (only selected architectures and releases) Ubuntu mirror using apt-mirror or debmirror.
#TUMBLEWEED GIF TRANSPARENT FULL#
I took the full contents of our ubuntu-archive mirror, but you can probably get away with only i386 and amd64 for the new release people are installing and any old ones they might be upgrading from. Disk space requirements (very rough, per architecture, per release): package mirror 50GiB, Ubuntu/Kubuntu CDs 5GiB, Xubuntu/Mythbuntu/UbuntuStudio CDs 5GiB, Ubuntu/Kubuntu/Edubuntu DVDs: 10GiB. If anyone wants to do this at future events, it's really not that hard to organise, you just need the bandwidth to create the mirror. Even when we used to meet at pubs in the early days, people would pull out laptops to burn ISOs for each other and get assistance with upgrades.Īs the maintainer of a local university mirror, I took along a mini-mirror to our Lucid Release party and will be doing it for the Maverick party tomorrow. Our Ubuntu LoCo release parties always end up being part-install-fest. All this has meant little progress in my MSc, though :/ Since I last blogged, I’ve become a Debian Developer, made an Ibid point release, been to (my first) UDS and a Debconf (which were both fantastic, and very different), spent a week sailing in Croatia with my brother, and been pulled into the Ubuntu release team.

I think that’s pretty good for a day’s work :P In other newsĮep, haven’t blogged an ages. Maia visited us briefly at lunch time and took some photos, thanks :) Sorry you couldn’t stay longer.
#TUMBLEWEED GIF TRANSPARENT ARCHIVE#
We had intended to focus on Scientific packages, but it was easier to just pick arbitrary build failures from the most recent archive rebuild. It was only 5 of us, and I was the only one with any uploads under my belt, but the nice small team meant I had time to help everyone fix some build failures. We had quite a successful Ubuntu Global Jam on Saturday.
