Re: New devel version...

On Sun, 2002-10-06 at 03:27, Greg Kurtzer wrote:
> OK, well it was not as bad as I thought. I rewrote the dependency engines, and
> gave the option of creating a GRAB friendly repository on your FTP server.


That sounds good...and makes a lot of sense for a full distro grab
repository.  
Now how about this....lets say there is an ftp server out there (for
example freshrpms) that you want to get packages from via grab....but
they don't run a grabified ftp server.  Do you think you could have grab
look in another place for the provides/requires....sort of like what
grab does with serverlists...to get a list of servers....but to get a
list of provides

The idea is that someone with a fast pipe (for example runlevelzero.net)
could run grab against useful remote server like freshrpms periodically
(daily), and store the compiled up2date provides/requires database stuff
on their server.  And grab users who want to get access to freshrpms.
but don't want spend the time making the initial provide lookups...can
setup grab to pull the all ready compiled providesdb for freshrpms from
runlevelzero. It would sort of an advances serverlist feature...where
the serverlist could point to an ftp server and a seperate providesdb
location....saving the grab endusers some time.


-jef

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