On Mon, 3 Dec 2001, David Douthitt wrote: > On 12/2/01 at 9:59 PM, Jack Coates <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > there are two problems with this scenario: > > 1) It's a PITA to look all over the place for packages. > > The leaf.sf.net site is not exactly good guidance since > > the packages page is empty and they're all under pub/ > > which isn't linked from the navigation. No complaints > > here, I have a login with write access but I haven't fixed > > it either. > > Ahhh, but the pub/oxygen/packages/ directory is FULL :) >
And recursive wget didn't work, so it took a hell of a long tome to get all those packages :-) > > 2) There is no way to tell the difference between Jacques' > > SSHD and David's SSHD and Charle's SSHD. This is because > > LEAF uses FAT16 as its filesystem instead of VFAT. I > > forget, why no VFAT support? Longer filenames would be > > helpful. > > I toyed with getting VFAT support in Oxygen; I forget what happened. > I remember one problem was that not all systems support VFAT - so if > there is a DavidBigSSH and CharlesTinySSH they get chopped in a system > that only supports FAT... And for this reason I'm thinking that versioning in the filename is a convenient nice-to-have. If the version and author attributes are kept on the web server that should be enough to enable accurate downloads, though there are still troubleshooting issues. Determining what version an end-user is using will require looking at package sizes. > -- > David Douthitt > UNIX Systems Administrator > HP-UX, Unixware, Linux > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > _______________________________________________ > Leaf-devel mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/leaf-devel > -- Jack Coates Monkeynoodle: A Scientific Venture... _______________________________________________ Leaf-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/leaf-devel
