On 09/18/2010 05:44 PM, fons@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
On Sat, Sep 18, 2010 at 02:50:17PM -0500, C Anthony Risinger wrote:
which seems an appropriate question, given the circumstances of
removal; if the only reason was to discourage the creation of local
mirrors... well, to me at least, that seems a poor reason.
i sympathize with some of the reasons for creating localized mirrors.
in particular, when the mirror is located on a removable device it is
especially useful... i did this to perform off-site installations, in
addition to installing packages i needed when a connection wasn't
available (ie. Nathan's train example)
I'd agree. I have to maintain 7 and soon 11 machines which do not have
have any internet access at all. In the past I've been able to get away
with taking them home for installation/updates, but that will not be
possible anymore.
So what is the solution for this if you can't have a local mirror on
a portable device ?
Ciao,
There is nothing preventing you from creating a local mirror. If you
can't figure out how to create a local mirror using the resource
available, you probably shouldn't be using arch.
