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User mirroring of the repo.

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Star Brilliant:
I do think offering repo DVD is not suitable.
Here are the reasons in my opinion:
- The extensions updates very often
- There are a lot of extensions that are useless for most of the users (do you think it is impossible that most of you install extensions like 'aircrack-ng'?)
- It is a waste to store so many useless extensions into DVDs

My suggestion is to offer SOME useful extensions into CDs or provide an ISO for us.

vinnie:

--- Quote from: oleg on February 10, 2010, 08:26:46 PM ---My proposition: Select most popular stable extensions which are not in testing mode. Create iso image and ask people to use torrent.

--- End quote ---

but this idea has opened a way not to discard.
for the future have a repository on a torrent protocol could be revolutionary.
enough one button on the interface of type "keep active sharing" with a green/red icon (on/off).
if I remember well the tracker can be updated, md5's are not necessary with the support of hashing.
ok, I'm crazy  :P

beerstein:
HI:
I suggest that users should make their own sub-repo at home or in the office:

In this sub-repo they should put the extensions they need and want the most. (20-50)
is what I always need. Then, depending on further developments and requirements the users
can add new extensions to their sub-repo at home. That home repo can be built up over time,
updated and stored on HD, CD, stick, card, DVD or whatever.

At the end it should work like a "hybrid - repo" using the one from ibiblio and the home repo.
It could save substantial bandwith.

This is just a suugestioen and I would be glad if you will comment on it.

bmarkus:
Torrent is not revolutionary and a single tracker represents a high risk as a potential point of failure. What would be really revolutionary a distrubuted P2P DHT network. There are different opensource working models which can be used as a basis.

Just an idea, but can be a good University project for someone :)

hiro:
Beerstein, I like your idea.
Currently I use tinycore on 2 pcs and 2 laptops. The tce is "cached" on multiple sd cards and usb flash drives. But there are problems in my current workflow when I change/update stuff:

1. The different tce dirs are not synced automatically
2. I don't want to keep all tces up to date, but compatible so that they work on all pcs.
3. If I update the base or extensions and everything is fine on one pc it might not work on the others.
4. If I then sync the dirs and the non-working version overwrites the old functional one it takes a lot of time to clean up the mess again. Especially if the old, working packages aren't available on the repo any more.
5. If I setup a new pc and download the extensions from ibiblio I might get newer versions than on the other pcs. The tce dirs will then potentially be incompatible even without an active upgrade.

So I haven't found a nice way to manage this yet, but a private partial repo mirror might be a good starting point. But I haven't tried it because it seems a bit more difficult then just starting a web browser in your tce dir, e.g. what about .info and .list files.?

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