[Kolab-devel] Re: Proposal: Encourage downloading kolab from mirrors in a nicer way

[Bernhard Reiter]

On Thursday 02 June 2005 13:10, Sascha Wilde wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 02, 2005 at 12:38:13AM +0200, Martin Konold wrote:
> > Am Mittwoch, 1. Juni 2005 08:57 schrieb Bernhard Reiter:
> > > Can you be more specific about what is conceptually broken with
> > > issue383? This is not quite the same topic as "ftp.kolab.org",
> > > but about the comfort of obmtool.conf,
> > > so I cannot relate from your previous comments.
> >
> > It is conceptually broken to ask people "to copy the URL in
> > obmtool.conf to a webbrowser and use one of the URLs on the
> > resulting page for $URL."

Yes, that would be bad,
but that is not in issue383.

> In fact, I suggested modifying obmtool to retrieve a list of known
> up-to-date mirrors from a master server, and than ask the user which
> one to use.
>
> Thomas liked it, but pointed out, that rc2 is not the right point to
> make such a not trivial feature change to obmtool.  I agree with him
> on this point.

We put too much effort in thinking about an obmtool solution.
This is not necessary, the normal use case is to get all packages
in a directory and start obmtool.

> Maybe this is the way to go, but I would do it _after_ the release.
> In the meantime I think that making the user change one line in a
> config file he has to edit anyway to make it download the files,
> telling him exactly where to find the information he needs, isn't
> _that_ bad at all.

It would be an improvement to the current situation.
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