Re: [GSOC 2008] update: install-tool

Klaus Heinz <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.os.netbsd.devel.installation
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Zach Wegner wrote:

> But if an FTP site is down, it should have some sort of error
> correction. My idea is to have backup media, so that for when a set
> fails on CD, we can try NFS, and if that fails, FTP, etc. The

This sounds too complicated to me, better stick to one media, _maybe_ with
several instances of the same kind in the case of fetching sets over
the network (= mirror servers).
IMO, a way to see what went wrong in a log file is far more important
than making the program too clever.

ciao
     Klaus
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