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Tiny Core Extensions => TCE Talk => Topic started by: vinnie on February 21, 2011, 11:58:27 PM

Title: mirrors.tcz
Post by: vinnie on February 21, 2011, 11:58:27 PM

Ok, core elements are gone in the repository, to my great joy, but mirrors.tcz disappeared from the web without reappearing in the repository.
I have a copy of that package, and then I can use yet, but I think he should live with xlibs and xprogs

P.s. is possible change the mirror in prompt line?

Title: Re: mirrors.tcz
Post by: hiro on February 22, 2011, 08:05:07 AM

change /opt/tcemirror

Title: Re: mirrors.tcz
Post by: hiro on February 22, 2011, 08:07:52 AM

I'm also confused about where mirrors.tcz has gone

Title: Re: mirrors.tcz
Post by: vinnie on February 22, 2011, 09:15:11 AM

thanks hiro, I think that the developers have something in mind for mirrors.tcz, the question in what  ???

Title: Re: mirrors.tcz
Post by: roberts on February 22, 2011, 10:21:05 AM

OK. It was part oversight and part ibiblio migration. When I first created this tiny data file extension everything was fine with ibiblio. When I wanted to release 3.5, ibiblio mirrors were not working. Therefore I did not post this extension at that time. It is now posted.

Title: Re: mirrors.tcz
Post by: vinnie on February 22, 2011, 09:30:58 PM

Thanks roberts; I could forward the request for a "tce-mirrors" that displays a list of mirrors in a terminal allowing you to choose the desired one (such as ab or Xsetup for instance)?

Title: Re: mirrors.tcz
Post by: roberts on February 22, 2011, 09:41:08 PM

OK. Will do.

Title: Re: mirrors.tcz
Post by: vinnie on February 23, 2011, 04:14:53 AM

 :)

Title: Re: mirrors.tcz
Post by: hiro on February 23, 2011, 09:59:30 AM

Hmm, editing a text file isn't that difficult, is it?

Title: Re: mirrors.tcz
Post by: vinnie on February 24, 2011, 07:34:23 AM

I am an imperfect person, sometimes I could be sarcastic but I try to restrain myself.
edit a text file is really simple, but if you open that file you note that there is only one mirror and not entire list commented by #

Title: Re: mirrors.tcz
Post by: hiro on February 24, 2011, 08:35:58 AM

accepted.
The reason I asked is my reluctance to having multiple ways of doing the same thing.

Title: Re: mirrors.tcz
Post by: vinnie on February 24, 2011, 09:24:10 AM

Basically for me would be fine even commenting on a list (if it were to become so in the future, appbrowser overwrites the entire file with a single mirror at each change).
But I think a multiple choice is more near to the style of the distro.
On balance the button at the appbrowser is a multiple ways of doing the same thing.

Title: Re: mirrors.tcz
Post by: hiro on February 24, 2011, 10:48:46 AM

Surely there is a way to improve a style. Other than that I again agree.

Title: Re: mirrors.tcz
Post by: vinnie on February 24, 2011, 12:02:16 PM

I'm glad that for every function there is a corresponding textual and graphical.

Title: Re: mirrors.tcz
Post by: roberts on March 15, 2011, 07:23:50 PM

Quote from: vinnie on February 22, 2011, 09:30:58 PM

Thanks roberts; I could forward the request for a "tce-mirrors" that displays a list of mirrors in a terminal allowing you to choose the desired one (such as ab or Xsetup for instance)?

Done. Look for it starting with v3.6.

Title: Re: mirrors.tcz
Post by: vinnie on March 16, 2011, 01:03:21 AM

Great  :D

Title: Re: mirrors.tcz
Post by: gerald_clark on March 16, 2011, 04:29:46 PM

Can we have it append ( or better yet ) prepend entries from a local list?
This would allow changing to a public mirror, and later changing back to a private mirror
without having to edit tcemirror.
Perhaps with /opt/localmirrors.

Title: Re: mirrors.tcz
Post by: roberts on March 16, 2011, 06:05:41 PM

Good idea. Will do. Thanks!

Title: Re: mirrors.tcz
Post by: roberts on March 22, 2011, 11:55:04 AM

Support for /opt/localmirrors in both command line and appbrowser GUI, done!