Re: [gentoo-dev] Peer-to-Peer?

[Michael Cummings]

I just wanted to repeat, I meant absolutely no offense or disrespect
with this posting, turn the flame guns off, yada yada yada. I think the
"technology"/technique posted about is interesting, could be useful,
just IMHO binaries for the gentoo packages goes against why something
like gentoo is so great...

On Thu, Jul 18, 2002 at 09:39:20AM -0400, Michael Cummings wrote:
> then we could rename all the extensions to rpm and...
>
> sorry, not trying to be callous, but one flaw I would see is that there
> is more to the flags than just the hardware flag. I have three machines
> running gentoo, each of them with hardware in various states of
> degredation. What you suggest would also require, in addition to a
> package per hardware config, is one per possible config line (USE
> variables can differ from user to user depending on their needs - i have
> a box with a USE of -X -java -qt -gnome -kde -gtk just to insure that
> nothing got put on that might have a dependancy on those), not to
> mention dependancies (F begot G which begot H which begot I). For
> instance, as time has progressed I have noticed that emerge -pu world
> displays some packages marked as N, which means that new dependancies
> have arisen since I fist installed the package in question.
>
> But then, that would just be my meager $.02 worth, which these days
> won't even cover taxes on a soda can. Cool idea though for using
> distributed package sources...would require that every peer keep up to
> date tarballs though, to account for security fixes and patches, might
> be a little bandwith intensive...but i ramble.
>
> On Thu, Jul 18, 2002 at 09:26:38AM -0400, Yannick Koehler wrote:
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> > I read about bittorrent recently.  I was wondering if the mirror and tools
> > used by gentoo (fetch/wget) support such system.  If so, wouldn't be great
> > that people like me who could participate in providing packages could install
> > bittorrent or another file sharing peer-to-peer tools and help in spreading
> > gentoo ;-)
> >
> > I see two kind of packages distribution, the source one
> > (/usr/portage/distfiles/*) and the compiled package.  Someone could setup on
> > the mirror a binary version of gentoo compile with specific use/compile flags
> > (preferrably the default one set inside the various gentoo config files) and
> > then people that like that configuration could just install those package
> > instead of re-compiling, they could still recompile the package that they
> > want with their own option but for may speed up a lot upgrade of package for
> > end-user satisfied with the pre-compile cflags/use of the mirror.
> >
> > There could also be more than one mirror with different flags/use.  It would
> > even be nice that the mirror only reflect content of package held on end-user
> > system for the peer-to-peer system to kick in and offer them to other users.
> >
> > - --
> >
> > Yannick Koehler
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