[advocacy-discuss] Software 'wish list'!

[Shawn Walker]

On Jun 20, 2009, at 9:51 PM, HeCSa wrote:
> Ben, a new member of our community sent us a mail asking for a simple
> way to install a network driver for his on board Atteros L2 network
> card.
> We downloaded the source code of the drivers from some site, and then
> had the need of COPYING a gcc compiler to his machine, because we  
> had no
> option for downloading the gcc packages, and then install them.
> IPS could be great, and I think in this way, but having a plan "B" for
> this situations could be great too.


As mentioned many times before, off-line support should be available  
for the 2010.02 release (which means in a dev build before then).

In the meantime, very soon, a copy of the 2009.06 repository suitable  
for offline use will also be available.

Cheers,
-- 
Shawn Walker