[13:03] <Lindon-Wynta> 52GB done, ~47GB to go :/
[13:04] <Lindon-Wynta> Downloading a copy of Precise repos for offline use
[13:05] <Lindon-Wynta> Then I gotta get KDE3 repos and some others...
[13:06] <Lindon-Wynta> Does anyone know if Ubuntu Software Store will actually work, if sources.list is directed to local repos?
[13:07] <Lindon-Wynta> Or will if everything be greyed out, if Software Centre detects no Internet connection?
[13:07] <sagaci> just in case the internet goes down
[13:08] <jaddi27> i think you can set it up to use a local repo
[13:08] <Lindon-Wynta> Hmmm
[13:08] <sagaci> Lindon-Wynta: no, they come from extras.ubuntu.com
[13:08] <sagaci> I might be wrong
[13:08] <jaddi27> head_victim would know more - he has done it before
[13:08] <sagaci> sorry
[13:08] <Lindon-Wynta> That's ok, I'm more of a Synaptic / CLI guy
[13:09] <Lindon-Wynta> Software Centre is nice, little slow for me
[13:09] <sagaci> I thought you meant that special part of the store
[13:09] <Lindon-Wynta> That's ok, thanks anyway
[13:09] <sagaci> in that case, it should all work, unless you install a package that need to download from external source, ie. flash, ms fonts
[13:10] <Lindon-Wynta> yeah, been trying to take care of that too lol
[13:10] <Lindon-Wynta> I found an offline-MSFont installer
[13:10] <Lindon-Wynta> Flash is easy
[13:12] <Lindon-Wynta> It's all easy, really, just very tedious over a ~5Mbit - 6Mbit connection :/
[13:13] <Lindon-Wynta> Well, it's not so much that, mainly the servers seem to take their time sending me the data
[13:13] <head_victim> Lindon-Wynta: what we did for an installfest was rsync an entire repository (it's around 500GB from memory?) and then do some dns foo to make everything point to a webserver running the repo
[13:13] <head_victim> It took me a couple of days to sync the whole repo over Telstra cable from aarnet
[13:14] <head_victim> The idea being all computers on the network use the local copy then and it's super quick to install software.
[13:14] <Lindon-Wynta> head_victim, yeah I'm using debmirror for Ubuntu via aarnet and rsync (custom script) for openSUSE
[13:14] <head_victim> Ah, I didn't do anything custom for the rsync, I literally just rsynced the whole mirror (archive and releases)
[13:17] <Lindon-Wynta> Yeah, rsync doesn't descriminate against which files it pulls
[13:17] <Lindon-Wynta> Which I think is rather handy
[13:18] <head_victim> Yeah, it was handy. Took forever and still chewed over 100gb a month keeping it up to date
[13:19] <head_victim> I haven't updated it since January though (the USB drive it's on is sitting in the cupbaord) so I'm thinking maybe a whole new download would be easier.
[13:19] <Lindon-Wynta> Yeah, well mine will mainly be "fire and forget". I'll grab what updates for Prices there are now (or soonish), but after that, that's it.
[13:19] <Lindon-Wynta> *Precise
[13:19] <head_victim> Yeah, I had everything from 10.04 up here so figured may as well do the lot.
[13:20] <Lindon-Wynta> Ahhh can't wait for Quetzal, I have enough issues with Precise typos lol
[13:20] <head_victim> I gotta charge, feel to hang around and ask questions though. sagaci and jaddi27 are both pretty clued in :)
[13:20] <Lindon-Wynta> Cya head_victim 
[13:20] <Lindon-Wynta> Thanks
[13:23] <Lindon-Wynta> sagaci, So, I was planning on pulling extras.ubuntu, does this mean I should have the "meta-data" (fancy stuff) for Software Store?
[13:51] <sagaci> Lindon-Wynta: I'm not sure how that would work since some of that is proprietary and/or paid for softwares