On Thu, Sep 02, 1999 at 09:20:55PM -0400, Daniel Burrows wrote: > The major obstacle to installing the Hurd from a Debian system using the > lots-of-packages method has generally been that it's a pain to get all > the packages by hand (yes, not *much* of a pain but still nontrivial)
Yes, that's right. > The attached patch modifies cross-install to support downloading the files > with wget as part of the installation process. It also should support aborted > downloads. Whoa, that's nice! I'm happy to include it. Thanks for implementing this feature. > In addition, the patch adds a mechanism for parsing additional options on > the > command-line (this is used for activating the download feature, but I also > hooked it into some other options). Yupp, looks great. I'll probably allow short options, too, and change the name of some of the options, but otherwise it's fine. Thanks again. > I believe that cross-install should continue to work as it does currently if > the download feature is not enabled. I have to test it anyway (to see if it is in sync with current ftp archive), so don't worry. Marcus -- `Rhubarb is no Egyptian god.' Debian http://www.debian.org Check Key server Marcus Brinkmann GNU http://www.gnu.org for public PGP Key [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP Key ID 36E7CD09 http://homepage.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/Marcus.Brinkmann/
