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[Paul Mahon <dufflebunk AT dufflebunk.homeip.net>]

There is a problem with distributing caches. The depends info isn't
distributed with it, causing problems if it is recast. There is a desire
to have this information in the tarball, but no one on the sorcery team
has done it. It may, in the end, be done with the installed grimoire
idea.

As for round robin FTP, why not just use bittorrent?

On Tue, 2004-05-10 at 09:54 +0200, Piero Ottuzzi wrote:
> Hi my friends,
> 
> I think the idea Karsten is proposing is very nice and based on the same 
> idea 
> I would like to go one step further...
> Mirroring of source packages is nice... but what if we're going to mirror 
> also 
> precompiled packages?
> I mean: how many there has a full system precompiled with k7 optimization?
> So.. I'm starting the installation with k7 optimization and the system ask 
> to 
> me if I want to download pre-compiled packages (if available and thus using 
> the distributed mirroring to fetch precompiled archives) or if I want to 
> compile everything from sources.
> I know this "one step further" is not as trivial as saying it but it would 
> be 
> a nice feature...
> 
> Let me know what you think... I have some ideas on how to implement it... I 
> can put this ideas on wiki...
> 
> Ciaoo
> Apiero
> 
> Alle 21:23, venerdì 1 ottobre 2004, Karsten Behrmann ha scritto:
> > Hey all!
> > Just wanted to bring this up again, it was on the list years ago, IIRC.
> > The basic idea is that everyone willing runs an ftp server on their
> > /var/spool/sorcery, giving us a huge network of mirrors.
> >
> > You could download a file that's outdated without any trouble, It'll
> > stick around for a bit.
> > Also, you could download a large file in parts from different servers,
> > using all your available bandwidth for a change.
> >
> > What's the count on people interested?
> > Who could run a central server for round-robin?
> > Maybe we can get this thing running this time!
> > So Far,
> >   Karsten Behrmann
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