Re: US Debian Crypto Policy - Possible solution?
Does this mean you arent going to host the non-US stuff on your ftp
mirror? I was hoping to have a good mirror to download it all from.
Say, isnt there a mirror in Canada that already does this? Does anyone
have the address?
Manong Dibos
http://www.linuxos.org/
On Mon, 13 Oct 1997, Dave Cinege wrote:
> On Mon, 13 Oct 1997 16:41:28 -0700, Christoph Lameter wrote:
>
> >Go ahead and do it! I'd really like to have another site in the US carrying it.
> >Canwe modify dpkg-ftp to be able to access multiple sites? I.e. we have another
> >field for the crypto site.
>
> I've thought of this also. I would like to see a policy change of sites that that are
> unable to carry it have a dummy files of some sort so it at least people know it's
> available.
>
> Hey here's a thought. How about a wrapper script to do it? Eveybody should be
> able to be happy with that.
>
> Example: [crypto-package]-wrapper.deb will be kept at all debian sites. It will be
> 'dselectable'.
>
> When it goes to install, it will bring up a disclaimer about the supposed legalities
> for the package, etc, etc.
> Do you understand? (N/y)
> It will then present a list of ftp sites to grab the package from.
> Which site to get the package? (1, 2, 3, etc)
> Then it will ftp it and run dpkg on it. It will be nearly seemless from dselect.
>
> Doing this would be simplistic to create and maintain, as well fit right into the
> current scheme.
>
> What does everyone think? We could do it with a wrapper-package at all sites, or
> just list the package at all sites, and sites that do not wish to carry it just install the
> wrapper instead.
>
> If we can agree that this will be done I'll sit down and start making something with
> perl. I think we could get away with one generic wrapper, that just gets renamed for
> the different packages.
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