On Fri, 3 Jul 2009 17:10:00 +0200 Peter Poeml <poeml@cmdline.net> wrote:
Hi!
To quickly introduce myself, I am the author of MirrorBrain and I noticed you discussion here.
Hello Peter, thanks for your post.
MirrorBrain also creates Metalinks. Didn't you guys start using those? I saw http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?pid=573250 (regarding ISO images)
Community effort (not official). I've never seen the use of this, as our torrent files are webseed enabled. (eg you can do pull it with torrent + pull from various mirrors at the same time)
and I noticed usage for package management being mentioned here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metalink#In_use "Metalink is also being tested with Arch Linux's Pacman which is used for package management."
Not sure about that.
openSUSE is switching to metalinks for downloads of packages and metadata by the package management with the next release (using aria2c in the background). If you consider doing something similar, MirrorBrain would be the perfect basis to deploy this.
"Simplicity" is on the top of our list of values, metalinks seem to introduce a layer of complexity (but it also brings some niceties). Imho I would look at the option of just using mirrorbrain as mirror manager and redirector, without the metalinks.
I'd be very happy to help out with getting MirrorBrain up and running for you guys, if you are interested!
That's very nice. I've said it earlier, I think mirrorbrain looks very useful. Though I'm afraid I don't have much spare time in reserve.
If you want to know more, please let me know. I'm subscribed to the pacman-dev mailing list, and will stay for a little while, but it would be safe to reach me at my email, or you could just post to the mirrorbrain at mirrorbrain.org mailing list (you don't need to subscribe first).
Thanks, Peter
No, thank you Dieter PS: Will you be at froscon by any chance? Several Arch Linux guys will be there. (I was at fosdem too but missed your talk) Dieter