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please support manual entry for mirror #200

Open jonassmedegaard opened 8 years ago

jonassmedegaard commented 8 years ago

I would like to use my local approx - so would want to use e.g. 192.168.1.152:9999 as mirror.

Please make it possible to add a custom mirror (e.g. as a config item, to keep UI as-is).

ghost commented 8 years ago

After changing the other settings as you like, you can just edit create-debian-setup.sh Underneath the line . $app_bin/install.conf

#IIRC (just make sure it's in the same format as install.conf)
mirror=http://foo.com/debian

Editing install.conf won't help you because it gets overwritten when you start the install.

Jcfunk commented 8 years ago

edit install.conf and change permisions to read only

chmod 444 install.conf

bernhardu commented 7 years ago

As far as I see 'install.conf' is just available after the first installation attempt. Therefore the proposal by lope worked for me:

/data/data/info.guardianproject.lildebi/app_bin/create-debian-setup.sh

--- create-debian-setup.sh.orig 2016-09-10 13:30:15.952076316 +0200
+++ create-debian-setup.sh      2016-09-10 13:30:12.296190762 +0200
@@ -16,6 +16,7 @@ test -e $1/lildebi-common || exit 1

 # include installation-specific settings like mirror and arch
 . $app_bin/install.conf
+mirror=http://192.168.178.25:9999/debian-armel-ftp.de.debian.org

 #------------------------------------------------------------------------------#
ghost commented 7 years ago

@bernhardu great, please make a pull request if you feel you have something ready and useful for others.

bernhardu commented 7 years ago

@lope. No, it is nothing comittable. Just wanted to be a little more verbose on the workaround for first installs.

Jcfunk commented 7 years ago

Would edit to use httpredir.debian.org

The redirector aims to solve the problem of choosing a Debian mirror. It uses the geographic and network location of the user and the mirrors, the architecture of the requested files, IP address family, the availability and freshness of the mirrors, and a few other things.

bernhardu commented 7 years ago

@Jcfunk: user jonassmedegaard asked for a local proxy (approx) Either we have just small connections or want to relieve the pressure on the mirrors ... ;-)

jonassmedegaard commented 7 years ago

Quoting Jcfunk (2016-09-15 23:18:11)

Would edit to use httpredir.debian.org

The redirector aims to solve the problem of choosing a Debian mirror. It uses the geographic and network location of the user and the mirrors, the architecture of the requested files, IP address family, the availability and freshness of the mirrors, and a few other things.

Please note that this issue is about the ability to express a custom package repository.

@lope: Sure there are ways to hack files in a shell, but what I raise here is the lack of ability to express it in the UI of Lil'Debi. Sorry I was not explicit about that.

@Jcfunk: Please file a separate issue about which mirror to use as default (and beware of deb.debian.org which some has argued is more reliable and better maintained than httpredir.debian.org).