On Sat, Aug 05, 2006 at 12:52:36PM +0200, Stefan Brüns wrote:

as I have a very slow connection at the moment, and wanted to try the local build introduced recently, I have patched my osc to use a local directory as a package source.

Patch is attached.

remarks: The files will be symlinked, if they are available locally, and downloaded otherwise. To copy the files to the cache even for local files, change the "copy_local" flag from the default of "0" to "1" (usefull for DVDs, which are not in the drive all the time).

Greetings,

Stefan

Hi Stefan, thanks a lot for the patch. Something similar is possible without it, by adding a file:/// URL with %(foo)s identifiers at the *top* of to the urllist setting in .oscrc (the setting is not normally there, the below is copied from build.py): # default list of download URLs, which will be tried in order 'urllist': [ # the normal repo server, redirecting to mirrors 'http://software.opensuse.org/download/%(project)s/%(repository)s/%(arch)s/%(...', # direct access to "full" tree 'http://api.opensuse.org/rpm/%(project)s/%(repository)s/_repository/%(buildar...', ] However, contrary to your patch, the packages are always copied to the local cache dir on disk. I just wanted to mention this, because it might also be useful for someone. Regarding your patch, I would prefer if we could integrate it in a way such that copy_local=1 behaviour is the default, and it can be changed through configuration (instead of editing the script) -- so that people who take the inconveniency of having the DVD inserved can switch the behaviour, but it will work in a simple and reliable way for all others. Could you please change the patch in that way? That'd be great.

PS: I wanted to put this into bugzilla, but there was no Buildservice component ...

The buildservice component is in bugzilla's opensuse product. Thanks, Peter -- SUSE LINUX Products GmbH Bug, bogey, bugbear, bugaboo: Research & Development A malevolent monster (not true?); Some mischief microbic; What makes someone phobic; The work one does not want to do. From: Chris Young (The Omnificent English Dictionary In Limerick Form)