Synaptic without broadband Internet
John Nilsson
john at milsson.nu
Tue Feb 14 23:32:31 GMT 2006
On Tue, 2006-02-14 at 14:43 -0200, Carlos Ribeiro wrote:
> Suggestion: generate a XML file with all the upgrade information,
> including the relevant links and the MD5 checksum.
Better yet, a digitally signed list of MD5s.
Why XML?
Some suggestions from me. (work == place with high speed internet)
Web service
===========
User has slow internet at home.
At home user tells synaptic to make a repository-file on a web service.
A link to the repository-file can be sent to a mail account using this
dialog.
The web service takes a list of URI's and generates a repository
with those packages.
At work user can download the repository from the web service.
Helper app
==========
User has no internet at home.
At home user tells synaptic to make a package fetcher for windows. Gets
a .exe that can be mailed or put on a floppy.
At work user runs the .exe which downloads and composes a repository.
This repository also includes an updated list of available packages.
It's also possible to for the .exe to calculate what packages to
download for a complete upgrade using this new list.
Regards,
John
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