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On Thu, 24 Jul 2003 09:35:04 +0200 |
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Håvard Wall <haavardw@×××××××.no> wrote: |
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> How about implementing a file-sharing propram taylored for gentoo? Users |
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> could voluntarily share their /usr/portage/distfiles, or whatever would |
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> benefit mirrors. This would potentially let us keep huge (gaming-)files |
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> on their (faulty) hosts. When the original host is down, there would |
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> probably already be some users online which have a copy and is sharing it. |
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Sound great, a P2P gentoo (?), but how do you protect against trojans, malware and stuffs like that?, is MD5 (AFAIK, currently the only checksum used) good enough?. |
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cheers |
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mundo |
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