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This is an awesome idea. |
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Although after a look through the Gnunet website I'm not convinced that |
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Gnunet would be what we want to use. |
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I'm going to start playing around with gnunet and freenet and look at |
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what it would take to integrate emerge with it.... |
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On Tue, 2002-04-09 at 17:46, Jared H. Hudson wrote: |
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> This sounds a look a good idea. In fact the MD5 checksums are already a |
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> part of portage, in the files section of any package directory. |
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> You should be aware though, that the source files and patches that are |
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> downloaded come first from ftp.ibiblio.org, then from the origanal website |
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> for that package. |
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> For example, emerge'ing emacs would try ftp.ibiblio.org then gnu.org. The |
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> only files that come from Gentoo's main site is the packages/misc small files |
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> like md5 digest, ect. All of this is via rsync or CVS. |
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> So, the only benefit to a P2P system would be for another place besides |
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> ftp.ibiblio.org, its mirrors, or original site to download from. |
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> -Jared H. |
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> On Wed, 10 Apr 2002, Vik Olliver wrote: |
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> > Now that Gnunet has settled down: |
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> > http://gecko.cs.purdue.edu/gnet/ |
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> > Might it be possible to use Gnunet to distribute the source tarballs |
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> > among Gentoo installations? |
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> > As most users will tend to have their tarballs stored locally and are |
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> > very likely to have a network connection, Gentoo is an ideal |
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> > distribution for P2P updating - provided that some trusted GPG signature |
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> > (or MD5 at a pinch) can be used to verify the integrity of the source. |
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> > Implementing this system frees Gentoo and all its applications from the |
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> > burden and expense of having to maintain a central source repository |
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> > with high bandwidth, allowing the distribution to grow freely at its own |
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> > pace. Fixes will percolate through automatically, software that is |
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> > banned in backward parts of the world will come through via untraceable |
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> > routes, and the caching will ensure that the file requests are |
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> > distributed evenly. |
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> > I regret that I am already fully comitted (possibly over-comitted) to |
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> > charitable projects already, but I believe this idea should be aired to |
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> > those willing and able to implement it. |
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> > Regards, |
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> > |
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> > Vik Olliver |
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> -- |
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> Using the internet as it was originally intended... |
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> for the further research of pornography and pipebombs. |
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