[arch-dev-public] Additional Package ISOs

Damir Perisa damir.perisa at solnet.ch
Fri Sep 28 01:58:35 EDT 2007


Friday 28 September 2007, Jason Chu wrote:
 | 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...
 
right :)

 | >  | > 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.

ok

- D



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