[Apt-zip-devel] Exporting USEMD5SUMS

[Giacomo A. Catenazzi]

François Févotte wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> On Tue, Mar 18, 2008 at 8:34 AM, Giacomo Catenazzi <cate at debian.org> wrote:
>>  BTW somebody proposed me an other design: a web based application.
>> [...]
>>  Because the server will be in a debian machine, I think
>>  coding it will be a lot simpler that actual apt-zip.
> 
> I'm not sure I understand this correctly... Are you suggesting to use
> a central server from the debian project for this web-based version of
> apt-zip ? Or will it be up to the user to install the server part of
> apt-zip on a connected system ?
> I think the latter is a bit of a regression, in the way that we cannot
> expect every apt-zip user to be able to install a server on a
> connected system.
> 
> As for the former solution, I think it is quite good. It would for
> example completely eliminate the need for round trips between the
> connected and unconnected systems to update package lists. But, as you
> said, there is the problem of the resources it would take on the
> global server...

Yes, I mean the first solution: some central machines.
I think that all the potential user could use a web browser
(libraries, schools, Internet Coffees, ...). Now it
is too complex to run apt-zip in a windows machine, and
unfortunately most of the "remote" machine are windows
driven.

The resources could be a problem, but I hope to find some
mirrors. The main problem arise when there are updates to
big packages (i.e. 100 MB of open office).
But because of the apt-zip model, I think the loads are
spread in a some weeks/months.

I'll try to put a prototype in next weeks.

Have you (the whole list) proposal for the domain name (it will
be a .debian.net domain).

ciao
	cate