[Helidelinux-devel] Package lifecycle: Downloading

[Rolf V. <rol...@he...>]

Hi, all :-).

Downloading is the first step in a package's life cycle.
The question is how could this be done with the minimum
effort and maximum flexibility ?

With minimum effort I mean not needing to maintain URLs,
mirror URLs, files to be downloaded. Probably we should
use (or build) a central repository where our tools
can ask for URLs. Mirrors are to be taken into account,
so that bandwidth is saved when possible.

With flexibility I mean that packages sometimes come
from ftp or http, other from cvs, etc.

How is debian apt doing this ? Others ?

Until now, my approach has been to write an OGDL file
that contains URLs and file names. Some common repositories
are variables such as $SRC_SF so that is was easy to
switch mirrors.

Rolf.