Fedora Core 2 wishlists

Tyler Larson fedora-devel at tlarson.com
Tue Dec 9 01:20:41 UTC 2003


On Mon, 2003-12-08 at 17:35, Laurent GUERBY wrote:
> On Tue, 2003-12-09 at 01:07, Wil Cooley wrote:
> > I think he means something like 'apt-proxy' (or whatever it's called). 
> > It's a little more intelligent about what gets stored than a simple HTTP
> > proxy like Squid.
> 
> It would be nice to be able to copy easily downloaded packages
> on a CD or on an external disk (to share the joy with people on modems),
> that's a small bonus from the shared directory approach.

I know I shouldn't get involved... but I thought it *was* easy to copy
RPMs to a CD and share with others. Just tell up2date to not delete the
packages after installation and pluck them out of /var/spool/up2date.

Aw well.





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