Hi, I would like to suggest a new feature for entropy (unless it already is there and I didn't notice :)): adding support for local repositories.
Sometimes a user could have no internet connection, for whatever reason: - the user is traveling and has no reliable connection - the user just installed Sabayon and network card is not recognized - whatever else (slow connection, etc...) It would be useful to have support for repositories that are not online, but local, some examples would be: - local repositories from DVD/optical drive - local repositories from directories - local repositories from other partitions The feature could be implemented editing /etc/entropy/repositories.conf, in a way that entropy can distinguish between the repository category, for example a DVD URL would be: cd://path a local path could be: file://path and so on. There could also be tools to download packages from another online repository in a way that they can be added on a Sabayon system as local packages, for example this could be a use case: - the user installs Sabayon/uses Sabayon and for whatever reason he/she has no internet connection - the user boots from another PC and goes to http://packages.sabayon.org - the user finds a package he/she is interested in and clicks "download with entire deptree", this is basically the same thing you would get with: equo install --empty --deep <package> - the user then copies its downloaded packages into the local repositories, possibly using an equo command - the user can now install those packages whenever he/she wants without having to rely on internet connection. This feature could also be useful for "freezing the system", assuming that a user doesn't want to risk system instability due to updates, a user could run an hypotetical: equo snapshot <repository> to copy its currently installed packages with the same exact same version to a local repository and generate a "mirror" with all the packages he/she needs. To reduce the bandwidth this could rely on the packages cache when available. Would this feature be useful or am I just suggesting a bunch of useless things? -- Lorenzo Cogotti
