manish modi wrote: > thanks Riteshji for your suggestions and queries > Actually we are trying for all possible distributions > and once we cache the repositories in single machine then we can copy > that to other machines to so only effort is for caching once and we > trying to keep these machines in educational institutes and public > places in order to make available to everyone as far as possible. > And also told that if user in dharan and no internet on his pc one > option can be he will run the script(which we will be providing) to > generate a configuration file for his computer,send that to his fren > in the place where there is machine,and his fren might burn all the > required packages in cd and send to him this one option. > If u think there might be another options too, u r free to suggest, we > need ur suggestions for improvement
Okay!! So now I understand what you are trying to address. While it is good to have mirrors, it is not the most optimal thing to do, Especially if you have a resource crunch (bandwidth/storage et cetera). And will the educational institutions be willing to shell out money for that extra bandwidth/storage ? I'd rather suggest you a solution based on top of proxy + your helper application. Example: apt-proxy + Packager PoKo (or whatever :-) ) This would only download what people demand and cache it. BTW, as the developer, I'm curios to know what pypt-offline doesn't solve for your particular requirement? It has most of what you've mentioned * Downloading * Dependency Tracking. * Cache Tracking * Offline Bug Reports * MD5 Checksum * Multiple Downloads. * Cross Platform. Is there anything I've missed from the requirement list ? Ritesh -- If possible, Please CC me when replying. I'm not subscribed to the list. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ FOSS Nepal mailing list: [email protected] http://groups.google.com/group/foss-nepal To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Community website: http://www.fossnepal.org/ -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
