Re: A Proposal to solve the non-US problem.
On Mon, Nov 16, 1998 at 02:56:02PM -0600, john@dhh.gt.org wrote:
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> In the longer run it might be better to have a network of masters connected
> by a usenet-like flooding algorithm. The restrictions would prevent
> packages from making illegal border crossings and prevent packages from
> being uploaded to 'illegal' masters. Mirror administrators could then
> mirror masters in countries with compatible laws or else install the
> appropriate software and become 'leaf nodes'.
This sounds like an great idea. The only fall back is that we'll have to
modify dpkg/apt to cope with accessing serveral different masters, and
collecting the appropriate packages from where available. IMHO this is would
be a great feature for apt anyway. I often find a mirror doesn't have a file
I want, and apt just dies - it would be nicer if it then tried to get it from
my secondary site.
Chris
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