Bug#2391: mirror -- minor config problems

[Dirk.Eddelbuettel@qed.econ.queensu.ca]

  Brian> Package: mirror
  Brian> Version: Brian> 2.8-2
  Brian>
  Brian> 1) Why is "mirror.defaults" in its own subdirectory ("mirror") under
  Brian> /etc?

I created a directory for mirror under /etc because I always meant to add
one or two files in a directory /etc/mirror/packages, for example to mirror
the stable tree of the Debian distribution.

When I was about to do that, lots of funky things happened with the archive
at ftp.debian.org (ie that old story about Infomagic and the 1.0 release and
us shutting down some parts of the archive to the outer world) so I wanted
things to settle.

So given that a subdirectory is created to contain further files, I moved the
config file mirror.defaults into the subdirectory created for its
package.

  Brian> 2) The man page does not properly describe the location of
  Brian> "mirror.defaults".
  Brian>
  Brian>        [...]  (or standard input).  If a file named mirror.defaults
  Brian> can be found in either the directory the mirror executable is in or
  Brian> in the PERLLIB path, then it is loaded first. This is used to
  Brian> provide common defaults for all config-files.  [...]

Sure. I guess there are couple more Debian manpages out there that need
fixing.  That's why "dpkg -L" is so handy to know where a package stores its
files.

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Dirk Eddelb"uttel                              http://qed.econ.queensu.ca/~edd