On Fri, Feb 09, 2001 at 02:51:32PM +0100, Pixel wrote:
> [..]
> > Installing from ftp://local.mirror/Mandrake/7.3/i586/ would add
>
> [...]
>
> > mirror = ftp://local.mirror/Mandrake/updates
>
> the pb is to find the updates directory based on distro dir. I don't think
> there's any normalization?
Let me just create such a scenario (pretending most people would do so):
- Mirror your closest mirror with rsync, fmirror,....
- The directory structure would be like that:
/path/to/mirror/
|
+-- ...
+-- Mandrake/
| |
| +-- 7.1/
| | |
| | +-- ...
| |
| +-- 7.2/
| | |
| | +-- i586/
| | | |
| | | + COPYING
| | | + INSTALL.txt
| | | + ...
| | |
| | +-- SRPMS
| |
| +-- cooker/
| | |
| | +-- ...
| |
| +-- current -> 7.2/
| +-- updates/
| |
| + 7.1/
| + 7.2/
| |
| +-- RPMS/
| +-- SRPMS/
| +-- descriptions
| +-- ls-lR
|
+-- ...
- Depending, that "/path/to/mirror" is exported by FTP/HTTP as "/distrib"
install would have been from : (ftp|http)://server/distrib/Mandrake/7.2/i586/
where updates would come from "$install_root/../../updates/$dist_ver"
After all, I think maybe this could go into DrakX as pre-filled-in
configuration screen either to <change> and <accept> this setting or <skip>
creation of ~/.mandrake-update (in Expert mode only?)
Christian
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