[ale] my experience upgrading Ubuntu 10.04 - 10.10 - 11.04

[Shawn]

same functionality is available in ubuntu/debian with apt-mirror.



On Thu, Nov 10, 2011 at 9:26 AM, Derek Atkins <warlord at mit.edu> wrote:

> Jim Kinney <jim.kinney at gmail.com> writes:
>
> > Heh, heh.
> > Massive upgrades are never fun or fast.
> > I setup an inhouse repo clone so I update one system and all others
> point to
> > if for their updates. Pretty easy with fedora. Dunno on 'buntu.
> > So at least my internal machine update at wire speed or drive speed. 3
> > spindles of sata2 and dual gig nics bonded.
>
> I do the same thing -- I have local mirrors of the fedora repos...  I've
> been doing that for years, since F10.  When you're updating a dozen
> machines it really pays off.
>
> -derek
>
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