On Sun 2008-01-27 11:46 , eliott wrote:
On 1/27/08, Travis Willard <travis@archlinux.org> wrote:
On Jan 27, 2008 12:31 PM, Jeff Mickey <jeff@archlinux.org> wrote:
This is exactly what I think is a bad idea. I wouldn't want someone to query a server when they searched the filelist.. maybe I'm alone in this sentiment.
I agree - if this is to be done, it's to be done in a downloadable, offline file.
Crazy idea. Why not make it a pacman package?
$ pacman -S repo-filelist
that would be able to use our current mirror system, we can push out updates whenever we want, people can easily opt in, or remove it later if they need to, and the package size wouldn't be a whole lot larger than say...the kernel. [...]
I had the same idea, but I decided it wasn't a great one because to be useful it should be updated every time a new package is released, and IMHO that's not feasible (mainly for the user), considering its size. I still think the best implementation is to create a filelist with repo-add (or whatever script you use to generate the db) on the Arch server and then let is spread in the mirrors. As someone already wrote, xdelta would decrease dramatically the size of the filelist to download. -- Alessio Bolognino Please send personal email to themolok@gmail.com Public Key http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0xFE0270FB GPG Key ID = 1024D / FE0270FB 2007-04-11 Key Fingerprint = 9AF8 9011 F271 450D 59CF 2D7D 96C9 8F2A FE02 70FB