On 3 Mar 1998, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > Hi, > > OOooooooh, Perl. I volunteer. It'll take my mind off what C++ > is doing to it ;-) I guess you mean to get the information from the > user, asking questions as needed about types and urns.
Bah, Come to the Dark Side, join us, C++ is good.. Yes.. :P I doubt this will take you more than 10 mins to write, it should be trivially simple: Please give the base URL of the debian distribution. You may use file, http or ftp URLs. eg, file:/mnt/debian, ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian, http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian URL [http://llug.sep.bnl.gov/debian] ? Please give the distribution tag to get or a path to the package file ending in /. Distribution [unstable] ? -- If no trailing slash on the above Please give the components to get. eg main, contrib, non-free, non-us. Components [main contrib non-free] ? Would you like to add another source [y/N] ? -- Go to top in case of Y. Would put in /etc/deity/sources.list deb http://llug.sep.bnl.gov/debian unstable main contrib non-free My sources.list has: #deb file:/home/jgg/mirror stable main contrib deb http://llug.sep.bnl.gov/debian stable main contrib non-free deb http://llug.sep.bnl.gov/debian unstable main contrib non-free deb http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian-non-US stable/binary-i386/ deb http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian-non-US unstable/binary-i386/ Thats it! > For the ftp sites, one may even grab data from a well known > set of sites with mirror data and parse that. we should talk about > this in detail, but it is 2:14 am, and I am getting quite sleepy. Nope, how mirror lists will be handled is already defined in files.sgml and is not part of the caller. > manoj > -- > The first rule of intelligent tinkering is to save all the > parts. Paul Erlich > Manoj Srivastava <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://www.datasync.com/%7Esrivasta/> > Key C7261095 fingerprint = CB D9 F4 12 68 07 E4 05 CC 2D 27 12 1D F5 E8 6E > > >
