[Apt-zip-devel] Exporting USEMD5SUMS

[Giacomo A. Catenazzi]

PEDRO MACANAS VALVERDE wrote:
> *De:*  Eddy Petrișor
> *Enviado el:* mar 18/03/2008 10:13
> *Para:* Giacomo Catenazzi
> *CC:* apt-zip-devel*Asunto:* Re: [Apt-zip-devel] Exporting USEMD5SUMS
> 
>  >>Yes, this sounds good. Still, the bottleneck here seems to be the 
> server itslef. This would
> definitely have to be account (or some other authentication) based in 
> order to prevent DoS attacks.
> 
>  >Also, apt-zip would be only responsible of creating a "local machine 
> status" snapshot (states of the
> packages+sources.list{,.d/*}).
> 
>  >Still, I think this should *not* replace the current apt-zip-list and 
> apt-zip-inst scripts until we
> have something really functional.
> 
> To download, the server could generate an hmtl page with http:// links 
> included to the mirrors with the packages
> 
> So, downloading would be very easy: one could also use a spider for 
> automatization.

This is the key feature/problem.

I don't think we could give user link to 50-100 packages,
and require that user will click every link.
But to do to in such manner is very simple on server side.

So now I'll found two possibilities:
- generate one (or few more) tar file.
- javascript that will download automatically the files.

I don't like the "spiders" idea. It will mean that user need "wget",
but it will be difficult to windows user, and we want to avoid
extra tools on connected machine.

But probably this will be the first step of the prototype:
build a list of package to download.
The second step will be to tar the files or to execute the
javascript.

ciao
	cate