Re: Making debian net-aware

[Ian Jackson <iwj10@cus.cam.ac.uk>]

alegre@mars.superlink.net writes ("Making debian net-aware"):
> I have been thinking more about making Debian network-aware and what I 
> think is needed is a new network status flag and a few modifications to 
> dpkg and dselect to make them use this new flag. Then there should be a 
> standard place where files in /usr to be exported to other systems should 
> be put. Some choices for this "exportdir" would be /usr/export or 
> /usr/share/export, we would need to settle on one standard location. 
> Similarly, there should be an "importdir" with subdirs for each hostname.
> Then, the modifications to the packaging tools will be relatively small.
> Here is what I think would be the most useful network status flags and 
> their respective actions:

Thanks for that.  That's an interesting way of tackling things, and it
looks to me like it has a lot going for it.  I think I can see how to
integrate that into a more general feature that I want to add, but
don't hold your breath.

If you have any more comments to make, please go ahead.

Ian.