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Re: setup.exe final pre-release..


On Fri, 2003-04-04 at 20:42, Ronald Landheer-Cieslak wrote:
> I've been following this discussion from the sidelines for a while.. hope 
> you don't mind be butting in.

Oh, terribly. No gold stars for you. ;].

> On 4 Apr 2003, Robert Collins wrote:
> > Setup doesn't have a concept of a local mirror. It has a 'local package
> > dir', where it caches packages during install. The mirroring scripts
> > around create the same layout as setup uses for that local package dir.
> > Setup's needs are simple:
> > A setup.bz2/.ini on the mirror (ftp | http) site with correct paths and
> > MD5 detauls.
> > A local dir to work from.
> What if support were added for a "file://" mirror?

Sure, be happy to have such support added.

Rob
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