At 01:37 AM 10/20/00 +0300, Eray Ozkural wrote:
Anthony Towns wrote: good point, let me think about the archive a bit. hmm distributed archival system? [apt-proxy is not that] :) I could really write one, you know I've done a lot of parallel programming so perhaps that's what you need ;) And yep, parallel programming is not something different from distributed programming.
Actually, I've been thinking for a while that using something like gnutella as part of a massively-distributed archive would be neat (though I'm not sure how practical it would be). For that to be even theoretically possible, though, we'd need to have package signing. -=Eric