On Dec 9, 2003, at 1:58 PM, Martin Kuball wrote:

> So If I want a common repository for different images they have to be 
> in a
> common directory or I have to midify the moticello code?

No.

First of all there are two separate issues here - one is where the 
cache repository is located (which is a special repository that is 
always there, and which will store a copy of any package that you ever 
open, as an optimization).  This is, by default, in the package-cache 
directory relative to your image, although you can easily change this 
with "MCCacheRepository default directory: (FileDirectory on: ...))".

The second issue is sharing a repository between images.  You can have 
as many repositories as you want active for a package, and they can be 
shared among as many images as you want.  These can be 
DirectoryRepositories (using your filesystem), HTTPRepositories, 
FTPRepositories, etc.  Just add the same repository to all your images 
and it doesn't matter where they are located.

Now, if all the images that need access to a package happen to be in 
the same directory of the same machine, you may want to use the 
package-cache as your shared repository, and not add any others.  But 
you certainly don't *have* to do it that way.

Avi