On Mon, 21 Mar 2005, Martin Costabel wrote:
What Viv would probably like to have is a kind of "fink selfupdate-rsync-bindist" that would work almost like selfupdate-rsync, except that it would a) use the local bindist server instead of the Fink mirror network, and b) download not only the package descriptions in the finkinfo directories, but also the debs in the binary-darwin-powerpc directories. I am sure this could be achieved by a rather simple modification of the --exclude and --include options on the rsync command line in SelfUpdate.pm.
Actually, if all one needs to do is sync the /sw/fink trees, one could use probably use unison as a painless way to do it tunnelled through ssh. I've never tried using unison with root perms on the originating end though. Would it cause problems if I chown'd the entire /sw/fink part of the tree to my normal UID? The remote end should be no problem owned by root since it should be readable for all the files to be fetched.
The steps would then be:
1. run fink update and fink scanpackages on the server
2. run unison to sync /sw/fink between the server and client
[Do I need an index/scanpackages step on the client?]
3. use FinkCommander (or apt-get) to install the chosen packages (I only want a subset on the client).
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