[Apt-zip-devel] offline.debian.net method

[Eddy Petrișor]

On 18/03/2008, Giacomo A. Catenazzi <cate at debian.org> wrote:
>  > now *I* am confused. Does offline.d.n does the downloads then the CM
>  > gets the whole archive, or offline.d.n is only a dependency calculator?
>
>
> /me too :-)
>
>  Javascript was one of my old proposal (without the server back-end),
>  but I didn't find real method to download multiple files.
>
>  I was thinking about:
>  - USER on DM: list of packages
>  - USER on CM: open o.d.n, upload the list
>  - SERVER: will find updated packages
>  - SERVER: build a tar and give the link to user
>    (tar are cleaned after 12h)
>  - USER on CM: will click the link to download the
>    tar
>  - USER will move the tar to DM and it will install it.
>
>  The dependencies calculation was in a "further step", so
>  very easy to program, but uses a more of bandwidth.
>
>  Your proposal (javascript) will optimize the resources,
>  looking also to the nearest mirror, so server side
>  will be very light. If we can do in this manner, it
>  will be great!

Note that I have suggested this, but I am not able to do any work on
this (at least not until is in some close-to-finalization form).

>  About authentication:
>  I don't think it is necessary, IMHO it requires to much
>  resources.  So, IMO, we start with the simple method without
>  authentication. If we find problems, we will add the authentication.

Either way, the authentication is definitely something built into
apt-zip scripts, but is rather associated with the http server.

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Regards,
EddyP
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