Re: Perl LWP method for dselect

1998-01-07 Thread Michael Alan Dorman
Drake Diedrich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >For the moment, I'm using the standard MIME-Base64 and libwww-perl perl > modules (/usr/local/site_perl/...). I'm expecting the Debian modules to > be functional soon (libwww-perl is a bit behind, and mime-base64 is m68k > only). The latest libwww-p

Re: Perl LWP method for dselect

1998-01-07 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Wed, Jan 07, 1998 at 06:35:30PM +1100, Drake Diedrich wrote: >I suspect we'll get better cache hit rates if everyone in Australia > [the world?] uses the same sites (ftp.debian.org.au and nonus.debian.org), ftp.debian.org.au == ftp.debian.org; ftp.au.debian.org is different though. It has n

Re: Perl LWP method for dselect

1998-01-07 Thread Sten Anderson
Drake Diedrich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Tue, 6 Jan 1998, Jason Gunthorpe wrote: > > > I would be very interested in hearing your experiances with using HTTP for > > downloading .debs and the Packages file. I was hoping to use it as the > > prefered method with deity. > > > >Not much

Re: Perl LWP method for dselect

1998-01-07 Thread Drake Diedrich
On Tue, 6 Jan 1998, Jason Gunthorpe wrote: > I would be very interested in hearing your experiances with using HTTP for > downloading .debs and the Packages file. I was hoping to use it as the > prefered method with deity. > Not much experience yet, as the code is less than a day old and ther

Re: Perl LWP method for dselect

1998-01-07 Thread Jason Gunthorpe
On Wed, 7 Jan 1998, Drake Diedrich wrote: > Yes, I know deity will be out soon, but we're paying $0.19/megabyte > here, and caching helps. I would be very interested in hearing your experiances with using HTTP for downloading .debs and the Packages file. I was hoping to use it as the prefered

Perl LWP method for dselect

1998-01-07 Thread Drake Diedrich
I'm working on an LWP method for dselect. Current code is available at http://biocomp.anu.edu.au/~dld/debian/dpkg-http_0.1_all.deb The method can use any URL supported by LWP. Proxies can be set using ftp_proxy=http://wwwcache and http_proxy=... Multiple sites can be specified during Access