On Tue, Nov 17, 1998 at 03:24:46PM +0100, Wichert Akkerman wrote: > > There have been some discussion about a new setup for the archive to > better represent import & export problems. I want to make a few remarks > which I think people should consider: > > * I think we should always have a `main archive' that can be mirrored > everywhere without having to play weird tricks with mirror. We should > put a mirror configuration somewhere to show people how to do this.
Problem is that everywhere there's going to be a stupid law that is going to translate to "this package isn't allowed here" I'm waiting for M$ to be granted a patent for what essentially boils down to a kernel. > * This main archive *should not have unmet dependencies*. Reasonable, in fact I would say anything else is UNreasonable. > * We should look at the reason why packages can't be exported from a country > instead of which country does or doesn't allow it. Laws can change, > and such changes should easily be reflected in our achive setup. Agreed, but the problem is how do we do that without making a mess of the mirror process? > * If we decide to make a debian-restricted archive we will have to make a > nice & easy to setup tool for mirrors to use to setup mirror or rsync, > otherwise we will loose mirrors since mirroring will become way to > complex. I think a generic "restricted" archive isn't going to work in the end. -- Show me the code or get out of my way.
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