Hi all,
Good to see great response. And thanks for the suggestions on the issue
of name and other technical advices. Riteshji, i haven't seen functionality
of pypt-offline and opium. Actually been away. Perhaps, Manish and Suraj may
have given a good look at that. Will make sure that we know its strength and
weaknesses as soon as possible.
However, we are pretty sure that it is going to work a good deal for the
underdeveloped nations like ours. Actually, I myself have suffered from the
same problem. And recently i have left asking ppl to use Linux coz i really
had no answers when the issue of fetching the packages came. This machine,
hopefully, should be solution chiefly because it is going to be at public
place and secondly it is not going to be for a particular disto (definitely
we got to start with one distro but we plan to expand it and if everything
works properly it should include FOSS for Windows as well). So, it is going
to be a one stop solution. Lets expect everything goes fine.
Ur suggestions and queries are always welcome. Please, be patient if it
take us some time to reply.
---Jitendra Harlalka
On 4/3/08, suraj <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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> Riteshji,
> We appreciate your suggestion,and earlier, jwalanta dai also suggested it.
> To implement the proxy we need continuous internet. We don't think we will
> be able to manage it in our initial phase.
> Oh...yea , you most be wondering, where the repo comes from?
> For the first time we are thinking of getting it with the help of ISP or
> from our college. And for new updates,
> the server may be given scheduled access to internet say, 2-4 hr a day or
> even less.
>
> Its the lowest level of internet access that we are expecting...
>
> Riteshji we will obviously try, to implement it if we got continuous
> internet support.
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> On Wed, Apr 2, 2008 at 9:48 AM, Ritesh Raj Sarraf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> wrote:
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> >
> > 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.
> >
>
> Ok let me mention what i think,
> - first of all ATR ( yes, we named it *ATR*-Any Time Repo) is a repo.
> - secondly it provides a small repo, accourding to your requirement in the
> device that you choose (cd/dvd/usb)
> - thirdly it computes the dependency on the basis of the config file that
> you bring, and hence it wont copy the packages you have already installed
> in your system.
> - it will burns ready-made ISO (distros) to cd/dvd
> - further you can bring your own and friends config-file take the
> diff-repo and make your system look like your friends
> - Obviously for maintaining the repo we have , downloader, dependency
> traker, cache traker, MD5-checksum ...
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> >
> > 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.
> >
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> Regards,
> --
> Suraj Sapkota
> सुरज सापकोटा
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >
>
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