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From: Francis Giannaros <francisg(a)gmail.com>
So, let's discuss what we can do better for our
next distro,
I mentioned some of these on IRC, but I'll mention them here too:
I'd really like to see Zypper become a really mature and efficient (+speedy)
app for the command line, and I know a lot of things for Zypper are in the
works, so let me mention some of them:
And just wishes, such as:
* Full metalink support, especially for release time, and a metalink client
shipped with 10.3. This would include handling our own metalinks, which we
can make work with the torrent too.
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I just thought I would add that aria2 and other clients are working on the
partial file checksums which will allow downloads over ftp/http to automatically
correct errors during the download, resulting in a simpler process for most users.
The groundwork has been laid for KGet in KDE4 as well, and a Firefox plugin is
under development too.
As far as handling your own metalinks, that would be great! The project might
want to look into Bouncer (
http://wiki.osuosl.org/display/Bouncer/Home) which
powers Mozilla and
OpenOffice.org downloads I believe. It's been patched to support
Metalink, but even without that it should be helpful...From some of the features, you can
see how well it should integrate with Metalink on the server side.
"Sentry is a multi-threaded Python daemon that queries and tests your mirror network
to make sure it is intact. It is responsible for running scheduled tasks (via cron) that
can perform a number of tests:
1. Check that mirrors respond
2. Check that files exist on mirrors
3. Check that all files on all mirrors pass their hash code comparison
4. Run full tests on new mirrors and files
5. Spot checks on one randomly selected file on each mirror"
(There will also be a metalink lightning talk at FOSDEM).
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(( Anthony Bryan
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