On Fri, Jun 24, 2005 at 06:14:46PM +0200, Otto Wyss wrote: > The concept is based on an LDAP server (or simiar) as a replacement for > the Packages file and on a P2P network for package distribution (see > http://wyodesktop.sourceforge.net/index.php?page=pkgdist.html). IMO it > would make a lot sense if this concept is discussed at the Debconf5. i actually wrote something that exported a local mirror/server's Packages.gz file into an LDAP directory[1], as well as wrote the beginnings of an add-on method to apt to query this server. as far as speed/transfer efficiency goes, we're an order or two of magnitude at the very least. however, there hasn't seemed to be much interest from others in my continuing it, so i've been focusing on other things lately. also, there's a limitation in apt that it expects the list of packages to be retrieved through the same method as the packages themselves, which would get a little hairy with LDAP (you don't want to be holding the packages themselves, in LDAP of course). there could be a quick-hack workaround for this by having ldap-ftp/ldap-http methods that wrap around the ftp/http for the actual fetching, but a real fix would be to patch apt to allow for this. such a patch would also make it easier to distribute the packages list via other methodst too. anyway if there are more people interested in working on this, i'd be willing to put my code in cvs/svn and start up an alioth project. sean [1] see "Package Lists via LDAP" http://www.debian.org/News/weekly/2004/48/ --
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