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

[Michael Cummings]

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.
>
> - --
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> Yannick Koehler
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