The box that hosts this blog, garp, is now running Ubuntu 7.10 “gutsy gibbon” for great most-recent-release justice. It had been happily running 7.04 for some time. The intersession break gave me the breathing room to push through the upgrade.
Garp had been mirroring gutsy since Thursday, so the upgrade was a convenient matter of pointing garp’s /etc/apt/sources.list to itself, more or less. I used file:///path/to/files instead of http://garp.
The last thing I did was add hardy to the mirror. I have the disk space, so now I’m mirroring the binaries for both gutsy and hardy, but not security updates for either. This is a gentle reminder to anybody using me as a mirror: use archive.ubuntu.com for your security updates. Oh, and those of you who aren’t at NCSU or UNC-CH: I’m sorry, but I have to limit the availability of my mirror to those campuses since it’s not clear whether opening garp to the world would violate the AUP here in the office or not.
Now back to reading Antarctica. Enjoy $DECEMBER_HOLIDAY, everybody.
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