On Fri, 3 Jul 2009 17:10:00 +0200 Peter Poeml <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi! > > To quickly introduce myself, I am the author of MirrorBrain and I > noticed you discussion here. > Hello Peter, thanks for your post. > MirrorBrain also creates Metalinks. Didn't you guys start using > those? I saw http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?pid=573250 > (regarding ISO images) Community effort (not official). I've never seen the use of this, as our torrent files are webseed enabled. (eg you can do pull it with torrent + pull from various mirrors at the same time) > and I noticed usage for package management > being mentioned here: > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metalink#In_use > "Metalink is also being tested with Arch Linux's Pacman which is used > for package management." Not sure about that. > > openSUSE is switching to metalinks for downloads of packages and > metadata by the package management with the next release (using aria2c > in the background). If you consider doing something similar, > MirrorBrain would be the perfect basis to deploy this. > "Simplicity" is on the top of our list of values, metalinks seem to introduce a layer of complexity (but it also brings some niceties). Imho I would look at the option of just using mirrorbrain as mirror manager and redirector, without the metalinks. > I'd be very happy to help out with getting MirrorBrain up and running > for you guys, if you are interested! That's very nice. I've said it earlier, I think mirrorbrain looks very useful. Though I'm afraid I don't have much spare time in reserve. > If you want to know more, please let me know. I'm subscribed to the > pacman-dev mailing list, and will stay for a little while, but it > would be safe to reach me at my email, or you could just post to the > mirrorbrain at mirrorbrain.org mailing list (you don't need to > subscribe first). > > Thanks, > Peter No, thank you Dieter PS: Will you be at froscon by any chance? Several Arch Linux guys will be there. (I was at fosdem too but missed your talk) Dieter _______________________________________________ pacman-dev mailing list [email protected] http://www.archlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/pacman-dev
