Comments on: Distributing packages http://gcarrier.fr/2009/03/02/distributing-packages/ Life, the Universe, and Everything. Nothing more. Mon, 12 Apr 2010 14:10:06 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Anonymus Coward http://gcarrier.fr/2009/03/02/distributing-packages/comment-page-1/#comment-303 Anonymus Coward Wed, 04 Mar 2009 19:32:56 +0000 http://gcarrier.koon.fr/?p=75#comment-303 openSUSE has the build service to build and distribute packages. They're building for other distributions too, so it might be possible to get them to support Arch. :) openSUSE has the build service to build and distribute packages. They’re building for other distributions too, so it might be possible to get them to support Arch. :)

]]> By: miek http://gcarrier.fr/2009/03/02/distributing-packages/comment-page-1/#comment-301 miek Mon, 02 Mar 2009 17:10:32 +0000 http://gcarrier.koon.fr/?p=75#comment-301 OTOH the bittorrent overhead for small files may be too big. OTOH the bittorrent overhead for small files may be too big.

]]> By: kleinlohmi http://gcarrier.fr/2009/03/02/distributing-packages/comment-page-1/#comment-300 kleinlohmi Mon, 02 Mar 2009 16:35:05 +0000 http://gcarrier.koon.fr/?p=75#comment-300 ps: you have 1 new reader of your rss feed now ;D ps: you have 1 new reader of your rss feed now ;D

]]> By: kleinlohmi http://gcarrier.fr/2009/03/02/distributing-packages/comment-page-1/#comment-299 kleinlohmi Mon, 02 Mar 2009 16:28:46 +0000 http://gcarrier.koon.fr/?p=75#comment-299 Nice if you could make it into the dev-team!! on topic: I would highly appreciate it if there would be any possibility to install an arch system in the future using p2p techniques like bittorrent. maybe it would be possible to establish a central tracker on the archlinux server that distributes the packages, that are afterwards downloaded using aria while installing. i think it wouldn't be that difficult to generate a .torrent-file of each package. anyway, i hope you can join the dev group!! best regards, kleinlohmi Nice if you could make it into the dev-team!! on topic: I would highly appreciate it if there would be any possibility to install an arch system in the future using p2p techniques like bittorrent. maybe it would be possible to establish a central tracker on the archlinux server that distributes the packages, that are afterwards downloaded using aria while installing. i think it wouldn’t be that difficult to generate a .torrent-file of each package.

anyway, i hope you can join the dev group!!

best regards,
kleinlohmi

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