Mounting the "archive" directory from nfs does not easily succeed. The lock file cannot be grabbed. I've made a grungy work-around on my machine by making the lock file a symlink to /tmp, but this is obviously a clumsy and dangerous hack. Could a less-stringent form of locking be made?
I have 3 machines connected via a dialup line to the internet. Using a proxy would work, but I'd rather just keep the archives around until they are surplanted by others. It would also be nice to delete obsolete packages (ie, ones with newer versionfrom the cache (which I would rather not "clean" because of the slowness of the link). How difficult would these changes be? Jason Neudorf
