Date: Thu, 10 Apr 2008 21:39:39 +0200 From: Bernd Walter <ticso@cicely12.cicely.de> To: Pav Lucistnik <pav@freebsd.org> Cc: hubs@freebsd.org Subject: Re: package distribution crisis - CDN needed Message-ID: <20080410193938.GO55365@cicely12.cicely.de> In-Reply-To: <1207642548.84150.10.camel@pav.hide.vol.cz> References: <1207605059.1031.38.camel@ikaros.oook.cz> <20080408002005.W15502@fledge.watson.org> <Pine.LNX.4.64.0804080149160.10070@gwdu05.gwdg.de> <1207642548.84150.10.camel@pav.hide.vol.cz>
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On Tue, Apr 08, 2008 at 10:15:48AM +0200, Pav Lucistnik wrote: > Eberhard Moenkeberg pí?e v út 08. 04. 2008 v 01:54 +0200: > Now this looks so much better and easier than my CDN idea! We could use > it practically as-is. > > We will need to patch pkg_install to use http://redirector.FreeBSD.org/ > instead of ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/ No need to patch - just setup an http server as your source. Our libfetch is flexible enough to hide the transfer details from any client. I use it within ports for source file fetching since a long time. And it would be possible to setup apache as transparent caching proxy service. No need to write new software or use GPL at all. -- B.Walter <bernd@bwct.de> http://www.bwct.de Modbus/TCP Ethernet I/O Baugruppen, ARM basierte FreeBSD Rechner uvm.
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