DSSS and multiple intermingled environments

[Gregor Richards]

BCS wrote:
> Reply to Gregor,
> 
>> BCS wrote:
>>
>>> Reply to Gregor,
>>>
>>>> I'm not sure which of two questions you're asking here (which isn't
>>>> surprising since the net architecture is a bit complicated), so I'll
>>>> just answer both:
>>>>
>>> this question
>>>
>>>> So what would it take to let the user use a different list of
>>>> sources from which `dsss net` will download libraries?
>>>>
>>>> Currently you can only specify one at a time, but the --source
>>>> option exists for this purpose.
>>>>
>>> Cool, what would it take to set up my own list server? If it is easy,
>>> It would let me play with DSSS locally. (My main dev system has, by
>>> design, no net access)
>>>
>>>> - Gregor Richards
>>>>
>> In docs/README.technical, read the section on 'net installation'. It
>> may or may not be sufficient (nobody has ever really used it as a
>> reference :) ), so suggestions for improvements would be appreciated.
>>
>> - Gregor Richards
>>
> 
> So If I generate the listed files and stuff them on an HTTP server, I 
> can get dsss to play with it?
> How is the pkgs.list file generated? Do you have any tools for making 
> life easy for someone trying to set up a system?
> 
> 

As mentioned in the last section of that file, pkgs.list is generated by 
pkgslist.d. I suppose I should mention in there that the file pkgslist.d 
is at
http://svn.dsource.org/projects/dsss/sources/pkgslist.d (which is in the 
default sources archive). Mayhaps that should move somewhere a bit more 
accessible too ...

Oh, right, answering the question (will get step documented better 
later). Within the directory with your sources.list, run pkgslist. It 
will download all the sources, trace imports, and create pkgs.list.

  - Gregor Richards