Re: Getting rid of section "base" ?

1999-12-02 Thread Sarel J. Botha
On Wed, Dec 01, 1999 at 09:58:35PM -0500, Daniel Burrows wrote: > > About "daemon" interface, I'd rather classify a daemon as "Nature: > > server; ClientInterface: whatever-if-useful". I see 2 orthogonal > > issues here. > > Hmm. Most daemons don't come packaged with a client, and clients can

Re: Proposal: incremental release process (the package pool)

1999-10-29 Thread Sarel J. Botha
On Fri, Oct 29, 1999 at 03:10:19PM +0200, Florian Lohoff wrote: > Someone could just > > for i in `cat file`; wget -m $base/$i; done ... or just tell rsync to use a file which lists the files it should mirror, instead of ls -R Isn't this possible ? I believe mirror or fmirror can do that. Then y

Re: Proposal: incremental release process (the package pool)

1999-10-28 Thread Sarel J. Botha
On Wed, Oct 27, 1999 at 10:45:42PM +0200, Marcus Brinkmann wrote: > So we can have a real, physical pool of any sort, and all distributions are > simply a packages file with the relevant constellation. I think this is an excellent idea. > > This also eliminates the need for the bad performing fl