On Fri, Sep 28, 2007 at 03:22:53AM +0200, Damir Perisa wrote:
Friday 28 September 2007, Jason Chu wrote: | On Fri, Sep 28, 2007 at 01:59:00AM +0200, Damir Perisa wrote: | > Friday 28 September 2007, Aaron Griffin wrote: | > | * A small script which constructs a repo from a list of | > | packages, then runs mkisofs on it. This would allow users to | > | very easily create a CD or DVD full of packages THEY want. | > | > +1 | > maybe in addition to the script, if the downloading needs to | > happen at school (windows, mac!) it is maybe helpful to provide | > in addition an easy xsl(mozilla) or java tool for this (platform | > independend). or we provide the script in all platform versions. | > or the script is run by webinterface and the iso file is | > generated on the server a priori to downloading it. | | -1 on the xsl or java tool at least initially. I'm not going to | write it or maintain it... it will have to stay in sync with all | the other code we have in pacman.
not pacman but repositories. it would be a rewrite in java of pacman fetching and dependency resolving mechanism.
And the repository generation code...
| > instead i have a conter-proposition: we need a prespecified repo | > on optical drive in pacman.conf (e.g. /media/mobilerepo/os/i686 | > or something like this) and then this huge additional medium has | > the repo at exactly this place. i think with a medium label kept | > unique and HAL you can make it mount automatically and always | > at /media/mobilerepo | | I do mind automounting the medium to a special place. If someone | needs to mount a repo DVD, there should be instructions somewhere | and it shouldn't be very hard to do anyway (1. edit | /etc/pacman.conf 2. mount DVD). Doing something special to access | this DVD in a different place is a bad idea.
i agree about the "special". the idea behind special is to be "same" for all archlinux installations. this way, the 1) edit pacman.conf would just mean removing the #, since every machine mounts the additional media with additional repo on the same place. the whole thing however is purely detail. i agree with you that making it very special is not needed... but if somebody has two optical drives, the disc will be HAL-mounted in /media/cd or /media/cd1 or wherever, but if you specify a rule on the label for example, then it will always be where we want it to be, making editing pacman.conf obsolete.
Yeah, but the argument is changing a couple characters in a commented out /etc/pacman.conf line or pre-configuring HAL to mount a disk with a certain label in a different place. I really think that the pacman.conf edit will be easier. Jason