On Fri, 4 Apr 2003, David Walser wrote:

> Hi Buchan, glad you're interested in the script :o)  Sorry for the 
> trouble port 8080 caused.  I would have it on a real webserver with a 
> real domain name on a real port if I could just get a broadband 
> connection.  Stupid Verizon won't bring DSL down here, and satellite 
> internet is $100/month, I can't afford that yet.  I supposed I could 
> stick this on my GeoCities site...
> 

Don't you know Mandrake provides free hosting for small scripts, with free 
CVS support ;-)?
http://cvs.mandrakesoft.com/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/contrib-SPECS/cursor_themes/choose_cursor?rev=1.1&content-type=text/x-cvsweb-markup


> I could make a package for contrib too

You may get more patches by putting it in contrib (not from me though, 
perl is greek to me ;-)).

> I was actually thinking about 
> that a few minutes ago.  I think I should add rsync command line options 
> support first before doing that (will take some work, probably won't 
> happen all that soon).

I would be more interested in config files and multiple source support (I 
will probably use it now for updating jpackage and plf, since I have local 
cooker mirrors, but jpackage and PLF I currently rsync over dialup.

BTW, how's this for an idea:
-Be compatible with urpmi, making a local (file://) urpmi source
-adding a config option for the urpmi source with the details needed for 
rsync, urpmi.mirror (does this conflict with Olivier's sutff?) would 
update the local urpmi source via rsync, then update urpmi's hdlists 
(urpmi.update)

This would be useful, since most uses of this script would be mirror 
urpmi-enabled rpm souces? (And if not, urpmi could ignore them?).

Then all it needs is a gui. And when fpons gets to adding something like 
--repackage to urpmi via rsync, we already have some code/experience in 
place.

Regards,
Buchan

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