On Wed, 18 Apr 2001 13:59:43 +0200, you wrote:
First I download packets from the German site which if I'm not wrong they are the ones with license/exports problem. Second, I download the rest of the packets from "official" site. Can I trust rpm's not being duplicated on both sites? What's the SuSE's policy about this?
Why not first download from the international site, and THEN from .de, thereby avoiding the problem altogether ?
I don't see the issue here. Could you extend on it? I chose to mirror .de first because I prefer rpms from .com to overwrite .de than .de over .com. Really nothing of this should occur (because .de and .com seems to not have duplicated rpms).
Both files are kept in my local mirror. This is unnecessary.
If you use the "mirror" perlscript it will take care of these.
Read my response to Ralf Koch's post.
For my own setup, I made some shellscripts that symlink all those downloaded files into several new directories according to several criteria. Thus I try to avoid downloading huge fontfiles or other unneeded stuff like X when I only want to upgrade a firewall, etc. You get the idea. Also, those symlinks effectively merge the separate .com and .de trees into one directory my clients can download from. YMMV. Works for me.
Ummm, not a bad idea :-) Another problem I've not talked about is rpms like the kernel one which indeed should be installed (if not rpm fails to check dependencies) but really not used since I use to build (compile) and maintain (patches) my own kernel tree from tarball. This is more flexible, I think.
P.S.: been there done that. I wanted exactly the same as you want.
I'll keep you informed if I get it to work ok ;-) =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= ** RoMaN SoFt / LLFB ** roman@madrid.com http://pagina.de/romansoft ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~