[Klug-general] Dartford start time

[David Halliday]

> Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2007 08:29:24 +0100
> From: "Colin McCarthy" <binarysignal at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [Klug-general] Dartford start time
> To: "Kent Linux User Group - General Topics" <kent at mailman.lug.org.uk>
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> Maybe a cool KLUG project would be to have our own 'Buntu' respository
> on a removable harddisk so some people could do updates or installs if
> they wanted.  I know not everyone uses ubuntu, but could be useful
> when helping any new members who come to the Dartford meetings.
>

I looked into this a while ago as at work I have 12 machines running
Ubuntu and one ADSL connection shared with many users.

One opportunity is to start off using something like apt-proxy. While
it isn't the whole repository its close and does all Debian based
distros. I have notes on it on my site:
http://www.david-halliday.co.uk/?Linux:apt_proxy

or you can look into "Creating an Ubuntu repository mirror with apt-mirror":
http://popey.com/Creating_an_Ubuntu_repository_mirror_with_apt-mirror

I use apt-proxy although it's aimed to be used when a net connection
is available it is good if you have a collection of machines on a LAN
using ubuntu. It also mirrors the repository layout which a normal
proxy won't do.