On Sat, Sep 18, 2010 at 02:50:17PM -0500, C Anthony Risinger wrote: > which seems an appropriate question, given the circumstances of > removal; if the only reason was to discourage the creation of local > mirrors... well, to me at least, that seems a poor reason. > > i sympathize with some of the reasons for creating localized mirrors. > in particular, when the mirror is located on a removable device it is > especially useful... i did this to perform off-site installations, in > addition to installing packages i needed when a connection wasn't > available (ie. Nathan's train example) I'd agree. I have to maintain 7 and soon 11 machines which do not have have any internet access at all. In the past I've been able to get away with taking them home for installation/updates, but that will not be possible anymore. So what is the solution for this if you can't have a local mirror on a portable device ? Ciao, -- FA There are three of them, and Alleline.
