29 Jan
2015
29 Jan
'15
6:12 a.m.
On Tuesday 27 January 2015, Thierry de Coulon wrote:
Hello all,
This week end I again tried some install (trying to build a "video editing
machine" around KdenLive and LightWorks - faily impressed by the later) and
could not install Trinity (404 on one of the main repositories).
This made me think we need mirrors. While I can imagine not many could
mirror everything, maybe some could mirror TDE at least for one
distribution.
...
If all you are doing is binary installs, you can keep the packages. The deb
packages are only a few hundred megs. Debian keeps them
in /var/cache/apt/archives. If you put the packages there before you issue
your install command, apt will find and use them instead of downloading
again. I made a tar file of the 3.5 and r14 debs and stuck them on thumb
drive.
Many years ago, I ran a repository with all the i386 binaries for Debian
stable. At the time, I used a script figured out by someone at LSU's math
department. Today, there are better programs to keep you updated. It was
fun and made installs snappy. On campus, I used the math repo. My repo was
useless to anyone but myself because my ISP had an upload speed cap. That
has not changed at all.