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

And I see this was all already discussed, so you may ignore my
comments :)

On Tue, 2004-05-10 at 07:32 -0400, Paul Mahon wrote:
> 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 You could download a file that's outdated without any trouble, It'll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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