Ubuntu Customization Kit

  1. Bug #305044
  2. Comment #1

Comment 1 for bug 305044

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Krzysztof Lichota (krzysiek-launchpad-ubuntu-com) wrote : Re: [Bug 305044] [NEW] ask APT source for updates

2008/12/4 Alexander Sashnov <email address hidden>:
> Get:1 http://security.ubuntu.com intrepid-security Release.gpg [189B]
> Get:2 http://archive.ubuntu.com intrepid Release.gpg [189B]
> Get:3 http://archive.ubuntu.com intrepid-updates Release.gpg [189B]
> ......
> Need to get 16.5MB of archives.
> After this operation, 74.5MB of additional disk space will be used.
> Get:1 http://archive.ubuntu.com intrepid-updates/main language-pack-gnome-ru-base 1:8.10+20081107 [1721kB]
> Get:2 http://archive.ubuntu.com intrepid-updates/main language-pack-gnome-ru 1:8.10+20081107 [2030B]
>
>
> It waste my traffic and make enforce to ubuntu official mirror.
>
> I use local mirror in my local network. Also official Russian mirror-
> mirror.yandex.ru available for fast and 'local' traffic.
>
> Ubuntu Customization Kit will ask me about my mirror and temporary
> modify sources.list in unpacked system, so following customization from
> console (apt-get install something) do from my mirror too.

If you are using GUI, you can change apt sources manually using package manager.

If you are using scripts, you can automate replacing the sources file
and restoring it after download.

So you can do it already.

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 Krzysztof Lichota