using sbosrcarch as main source repo
Posted: 29. Nov 2015, 16:14
Hi all
Recently I read gapan post on Salix blog about dedicated SBo mirrors designed for salix and spi tool. I really appreciate the idea behind creating these mirrors as small official repository and dependency problems with SBo packages always have counted as main drawbacks of using Salix. I bet developing these mirrors will encourage ordinary desktop users who want a more ready to use Slackware based system to use Salix.
However, as you know SBo info files address scattered servers to download source. Sometimes this lead to problems concerning downloading package sources because of occasional hiccups of these servers. Also, some of these servers (eg googlecode and sourceforage) restricted access of Iranian people to their sites because of political sanctions. Hence, using automated tools to install and upgrade SBo packages has some drawbacks too. This means manually downloading slackbuilds and sources (from alternative servers) and building packages which is not so bad on Slackware but would be a nightmare on Salix due to many dependencies which must be installed.
Thanks to Darren 'Tadgy' Austin there is an updated centralized repository for all sources of SBo packages in http://slackware.org.uk/sbosrcarch/. I think this is not bad idea if Salix lets slapt-src to use this repository either by editing info files of it's own SBo mirrors or by providing an option for slapt-src to look to other places to download packages. I know this would be so much of works, but IMHO having a centralized repository for source files worth that. By this procedure Iranian users can taste this Great distro too.
Best regrads
Sorry for my english
Recently I read gapan post on Salix blog about dedicated SBo mirrors designed for salix and spi tool. I really appreciate the idea behind creating these mirrors as small official repository and dependency problems with SBo packages always have counted as main drawbacks of using Salix. I bet developing these mirrors will encourage ordinary desktop users who want a more ready to use Slackware based system to use Salix.
However, as you know SBo info files address scattered servers to download source. Sometimes this lead to problems concerning downloading package sources because of occasional hiccups of these servers. Also, some of these servers (eg googlecode and sourceforage) restricted access of Iranian people to their sites because of political sanctions. Hence, using automated tools to install and upgrade SBo packages has some drawbacks too. This means manually downloading slackbuilds and sources (from alternative servers) and building packages which is not so bad on Slackware but would be a nightmare on Salix due to many dependencies which must be installed.
Thanks to Darren 'Tadgy' Austin there is an updated centralized repository for all sources of SBo packages in http://slackware.org.uk/sbosrcarch/. I think this is not bad idea if Salix lets slapt-src to use this repository either by editing info files of it's own SBo mirrors or by providing an option for slapt-src to look to other places to download packages. I know this would be so much of works, but IMHO having a centralized repository for source files worth that. By this procedure Iranian users can taste this Great distro too.
Best regrads
Sorry for my english