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> Ok, the consensus seems to be that a large database of > software would be more useful than the software itself > on CDs. > > I can buy that argument. Freshmeat is OK at this, but > you can't do contextual searches (yet) and you can't > tell apt-get or rpm to fetch binaries through it. > > What's needed, if I am understanding this correctly, > is a cross between "archie" (anyone remember that?), > freshmeat, google, squid and an apt server, with a > local cache of rare and frequently-requested software. > > The archie part would enable the server to identify > who had what binaries for a given program. > > A Freshmeat-type database would give you a list of the > most recent versions of a program, given the title of > the software, rather than the filename. > > A Google-like search engine would give the user the > ability to context-search. There is a lot out there, > and you can't assume the user knows every single > program by name, but they know the context in which > they'll be using it. > > A squid-type proxy allows you to handle cached > queries, forwarding those that can't be processed > locally. > > The apt-server would be the wrapper around most of > this gunk, so that retrieved data can be returned in a > format that apt-get can handle. > > All the components are easy enough to obtain, but > yeesh! I don't think anyone's really looked at > combining them in quite this way. This is exactly what I was suggesting. Good job at being a little more precise than me! :) I don't believe that it has to be done through apt-get though. Why can't it just be http download? _______________________________________________ PDXLUG mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://pdxlug.org/mailman/listinfo/pdxlug
