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I read about bittorrent recently. I was wondering if the mirror and tools |
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used by gentoo (fetch/wget) support such system. If so, wouldn't be great |
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that people like me who could participate in providing packages could install |
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bittorrent or another file sharing peer-to-peer tools and help in spreading |
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gentoo ;-) |
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I see two kind of packages distribution, the source one |
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(/usr/portage/distfiles/*) and the compiled package. Someone could setup on |
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the mirror a binary version of gentoo compile with specific use/compile flags |
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(preferrably the default one set inside the various gentoo config files) and |
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then people that like that configuration could just install those package |
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instead of re-compiling, they could still recompile the package that they |
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want with their own option but for may speed up a lot upgrade of package for |
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end-user satisfied with the pre-compile cflags/use of the mirror. |
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There could also be more than one mirror with different flags/use. It would |
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even be nice that the mirror only reflect content of package held on end-user |
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system for the peer-to-peer system to kick in and offer them to other users. |
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- -- |
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Yannick Koehler |
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