From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 4.0.0 (2022-12-14) on finch.gentoo.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=DMARC_MISSING, MAILING_LIST_MULTI autolearn=unavailable autolearn_force=no version=4.0.0 Received: from olliver.family.gen.nz (pop1-port74.jetstart.win.co.nz [202.89.63.74]) by chiba.3jane.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id D898720AB141 for ; Tue, 9 Apr 2002 16:17:21 -0500 (CDT) Received: from olliver.family.gen.nz (moa [192.168.10.2]) by olliver.family.gen.nz (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g39LWYW17053 for ; Wed, 10 Apr 2002 09:32:34 +1200 Message-ID: <3CB35A73.247AA6C0@olliver.family.gen.nz> Date: Wed, 10 Apr 2002 09:17:39 +1200 From: Vik Olliver Organization: VSOP X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.78 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.4.7-10 i586) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: [gentoo-dev] Gnunet and Gentoo Sender: gentoo-dev-admin@gentoo.org Errors-To: gentoo-dev-admin@gentoo.org X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.6 Precedence: bulk Reply-To: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org X-Reply-To: vik@olliver.family.gen.nz List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Gentoo Linux developer list List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: X-Archives-Salt: 4ac4e034-6d32-4e95-aa0c-241c63a419aa X-Archives-Hash: ca84b7bf6ac621175057b687c37d0eb8 Now that Gnunet has settled down: http://gecko.cs.purdue.edu/gnet/ Might it be possible to use Gnunet to distribute the source tarballs among Gentoo installations? As most users will tend to have their tarballs stored locally and are very likely to have a network connection, Gentoo is an ideal distribution for P2P updating - provided that some trusted GPG signature (or MD5 at a pinch) can be used to verify the integrity of the source. Implementing this system frees Gentoo and all its applications from the burden and expense of having to maintain a central source repository with high bandwidth, allowing the distribution to grow freely at its own pace. Fixes will percolate through automatically, software that is banned in backward parts of the world will come through via untraceable routes, and the caching will ensure that the file requests are distributed evenly. I regret that I am already fully comitted (possibly over-comitted) to charitable projects already, but I believe this idea should be aired to those willing and able to implement it. Regards, Vik Olliver -- /"\ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . /"\ \ / ASCII Ribbon Campaign One of The Olliver Family \ / X - NO HTML/RTF in e-mail http://olliver.family.gen.nz X / \ - NO MSWord docs in e-mail Public PGP key available there / \