Re: PKG_PATH pain

2007-03-07 Thread Peter
Le Mercredi 7 Mars 2007 16:34, Ingo Schwarze a icrit : > Hi Peter, > > > I have a local FTP server that contains many packages. > > When doing an install I want my pc to first check this server > > before going onto the net. > > Why would you want to do that? > This might be a bad idea in the first

Re: PKG_PATH pain

2007-03-07 Thread Ingo Schwarze
Hi Peter, > I have a local FTP server that contains many packages. > When doing an install I want my pc to first check this server > before going onto the net. Why would you want to do that? This might be a bad idea in the first place. Suppose you got some package from a public mirror, and after

Re: PKG_PATH pain

2007-03-07 Thread Nick !
On 3/7/07, Peter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Yes, that works. Except that I get the situation that I want to avoid: missing dependencies. That's why I want that 2nd FTP site in my PKG_PATH: parsing postfix-2.3.2 Dependencies for postfix-2.3.2 resolve to: pcre-6.4p1 (todo: pcre-6.4p1) Error fro

Re: PKG_PATH pain

2007-03-07 Thread Peter
Le Mercredi 7 Mars 2007 09:39, Nick ! a icrit : > On 3/7/07, Peter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi everyone. > > > > I have a local FTP server that contains many packages. When doing an > > install I want my pc to first check this server before going onto the > > net. I have set up the followin

Re: PKG_PATH pain

2007-03-07 Thread Nick !
On 3/7/07, Peter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi everyone. I have a local FTP server that contains many packages. When doing an install I want my pc to first check this server before going onto the net. I have set up the following in a shell script on the pc being installed: LAN_FTP=192.168.3.1

PKG_PATH pain

2007-03-07 Thread Peter
Hi everyone. I have a local FTP server that contains many packages. When doing an install I want my pc to first check this server before going onto the net. I have set up the following in a shell script on the pc being installed: LAN_FTP=192.168.3.11 OS_V0=$(uname -r) PKG_PATH=ftp://$LAN_FTP/