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It was just a thought. I figured that's why we had CPUs... to automate |
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those mundane tasks and "hitting enter a few more times". On the other hand |
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I can see how a bunch of little scripts can become clutter. Perhaps when I |
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get a chance, I'll build one and submit it. Even if its not added I suppose |
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I can just use it myself. |
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On Jan 25, 2008 10:14 AM, Andrew Gaffney <agaffney@g.o> wrote: |
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> Keith Larrimore wrote: |
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> > It would be nice if there were a script built into the install cd that |
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> > allowed one to download the stage archive and distfiles without having |
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> > to use links to search the mirrors. |
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> I'm going to have to say "no" to this one. Atleast, I don't think any |
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> member of |
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> releng is going to take the time to write a script to do this. If you'd |
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> like to |
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> contribute one, perhaps we'll consider it. |
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> However, is it really that big of a hassle to go to the list of mirrors on |
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> the |
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> gentoo.org site, hit enter on the first one, hit enter a few more times to |
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> navigate the directory tree, and then download it? |
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> Andrew Gaffney |
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> http://dev.gentoo.org/~agaffney/ <http://dev.gentoo.org/%7Eagaffney/> |
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> Gentoo Linux Developer Catalyst/Installer + x86 release |
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> coordinator |
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> gentoo-releng@l.g.o mailing list |
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