How to best handle three offices with three different sets of repositories and different proxies?

[Rainer M Krug]

Hi Grant

thanks for your suggestion
Some questions below:

Grant McWilliams wrote:
> I have a similar situation. I've settled on storing my channels in a 
> channels.txt file and my mirrors in a mirrors.txt file. Then once you 
> have that
> you can just have a 5 line shell script that sets the proxies (http and 
> ftp) and sucks in the channels.txt and mirrors.txt files.
> 
> *Creating the files*
> 
>     smart channel --show > channels.txt
>     smart mirror --show > mirrors.txt
> 
> 
> *The shell script*
> 
>     #!/bin/bash
> 
>     smart config --set http-proxy=
>     http://username:password@proxy-ip:port
>     <http://username:password@proxy-ip/>
>     smart config --set ftp-proxy=http://username:password@proxy-ip:port
>     <http://username:password@proxy-ip/>
> 
>     smart channel --add channels.txt
> 
>     smart mirror --add mirrors.txt

this solution sounds easy enough - but if I switch to the other site, 
don't I have to remove the channels and mirrors from the previos one to 
only have one set?

> 
>  
> This is a simple version of our solution. We actually have a role based 
> solution and the script checks a system variable for the ROLE and then 
> sets up proxies and repositories accordingly. We also have boxes that 
> move in and out of the network so the proxy code is automatic now. When 
> you boot up it checks to see if it can ping the proxy and if not it 
> turns the proxies off (for wget, smartpm, firefox and links). If the 
> proxy machine can be pinged then it turns the proxies on.

That sounds FANTASTIC! Because I am struggling with different profiles 
for the different offices for many programms. Could you probably give me 
a hint on how to do this or even mail me the batch file you are using?

Thanks a million,

Rainer

> 
> Grant
> 
> On Nov 28, 2007 11:02 PM, Rainer M Krug <rainer.linux at krugs.de 
> <mailto:rainer.linux at krugs.de>> wrote:
> 
>     Hi
> 
>     I am working at two different offices in which I have to use different
>     proxy settings and different repositories.
>     Up to now, I just changed the proxy settinges in the config file with a
>     batch file and started smart as usual, but this does not work for the
>     different repositories. I thought that I could use differfent config
>     files and then by using the --config-file option select the appropriate
>     config file. But I guess, that the repository addresses are not stored
>     in the config file - what is the best way of handling this situation?
>     Define all repositories and then just enabling the ones relevant to the
>     sit I am at (and would that be stored in the config file?)? Or do I
>     have
>     to use different config directories? The repositories are the same -
>     they are just different mirrors. Could I use the mirror optionthen?
> 
>     Any ideas welcome,
> 
>     Rainer
> 
> 
> 
> 
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> Windows."
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