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

[Eddy Petrișor]

Eddy Petrișor wrote:
> 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
                                                        NOT
> apt-zip scripts, but is rather associated with the http server.
> 


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EddyP
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