[csw-maintainers] pkgutil version updates on the mirror roots? Make pkgutil package ARCH=all?

[Trygve Laugstøl]

Philip Brown wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 2, 2009 at 2:26 AM, James Lee <james at opencsw.org> wrote:
>> ...
>> 2. The form the root pkg tools should take.
>>
>> I suggest it need not be the same as the actual package and can be a
>> bootstrap version.  To force its own update it could use versioning
>> and datestamp or with an internal flag in the code.  The bootstrap
>> package can contain two archs of static wget, the actual package can
>> use depends.  There are other options.
>>
>>
> 
> Indeed. And one of the options could be as follows:
> 
> Instead duplicating our normal "packages" at the root level, have an
> actual INSTALLER proggie for CSW.
> That proggie could be a pkg, or one of those funky sh-wrapper things.
> If it's not a normal package,it then is free from any and all of our
> "standards", and can do whatever it likes.
> 
> Such an installer could help a user select a pkg downloading tool,
> select a mirror site,and other fun things like that.

Something like that would be very nice. A nice touch is the ability to 
select a mirror, the Ibiblio mirror is always very slow from Europe..

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Trygve