On Thu, Aug 23, 2007 at 01:17:22AM +0200, Gonsolo wrote:
> As Mr. Sliepen pointed out the same can be achieve with a FUSE daemon.
> I thought of symlinks pointing to an executable that load the necessary
> packages
> and corrects the symlink.
> For example:
> 1. Blender not installed
> 2. User typ
Thanks to all,
0install.net is exactly what I am looking for.
One thing is that this system is "per user".
Having something like that "per computer" would be
nice. That is, the admin sets up the computer with
_all_ packages and the user can use _all_ packages.
(Except that _not_ all packages are i
Hi!
> What you describe is not a cache and even less a _package_ cache.
>From Wikipedia:
"In computer science , a *cache* (...)is a collection of data duplicating
original values stored elsewhere or computed earlier, where the original
data is expensive to fetch (due to slow access time ) or to c
On Wed, Aug 22, 2007 at 01:52:40PM +0200, Michelle Konzack wrote:
> Am 2007-08-21 11:26:26, schrieb Guus Sliepen:
> > Well, it could be implemented with a FUSE daemon, that you mount over
> > /usr for example, and which periodically fetches the Contents-.gz
> > file from a mirror. It the uses the
Am 2007-08-21 11:26:26, schrieb Guus Sliepen:
> Well, it could be implemented with a FUSE daemon, that you mount over
> /usr for example, and which periodically fetches the Contents-.gz
> file from a mirror. It the uses the Contents file to generate directory
> listings. If some package tries to op
On Tue, Aug 21, 2007 at 04:57:28PM +0100, David Given wrote:
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> Eduard Bloch wrote:
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> > If you want to keep the files aside but ie.
> > compressed than you should use a compressing filesystem.
> > But if you want something working on acces
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> If you want to keep the files aside but ie.
> compressed than you should use a compressing filesystem.
> But if you want something working on access, expect it to perform very bad.
> Ie. if you want to install the files fro
On Tue, Aug 21, 2007 at 11:31:39AM +0200, Krzysztof Burghardt wrote:
> 2007/8/21, Guus Sliepen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> > I'm not going to implement this though.
>
> Doesn't auto-apt do this? It uses a bit different approach - preloaded
> library to overwrite stat(), open() and so on, then pauses p
2007/8/21, Guus Sliepen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> I'm not going to implement this though.
Doesn't auto-apt do this? It uses a bit different approach - preloaded
library to overwrite stat(), open() and so on, then pauses program
until package is installed.
Regards,
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On Sat, Aug 18, 2007 at 07:29:55PM +0200, Gonsolo wrote:
> Would it be feasible to add something like a package cache to Debian?
>
> This way only a minimal Debian system would be installed locally on
> the hard disk. All other packages are fetched only when used. For example,
> user Joe sets his
#include
* Gonsolo [Sat, Aug 18 2007, 07:29:55PM]:
> Hi!
>
> Would it be feasible to add something like a package cache to Debian?
What you describe is not a cache and even less a _package_ cache.
> This way only a minimal Debian system would be installed locally on
> the hard disk. All other p
On Tue, Aug 21, 2007 at 09:53:12AM +1000, Ben Finney wrote:
> Steve Greenland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > On 20-Aug-07, 11:58 (CDT), [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > > On Sat, Aug 18, 2007 at 07:29:55PM +0200, Gonsolo wrote:
> > > > Would it be feasible to add something like a package cache to
Steve Greenland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On 20-Aug-07, 11:58 (CDT), [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > On Sat, Aug 18, 2007 at 07:29:55PM +0200, Gonsolo wrote:
> > > Would it be feasible to add something like a package cache to
> > > Debian?
> >
> > apt-proxy ?
>
> No, that builds a local mirror
On 20-Aug-07, 11:58 (CDT), [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> On Sat, Aug 18, 2007 at 07:29:55PM +0200, Gonsolo wrote:
> > Hi!
> >
> > Would it be feasible to add something like a package cache to Debian?
>
> apt-proxy ?
No, that builds a local mirror of packages being used on a site, so that
if you're
On Sat, Aug 18, 2007 at 07:29:55PM +0200, Gonsolo wrote:
> Hi!
>
> Would it be feasible to add something like a package cache to Debian?
apt-proxy ?
Regards,
Paddy
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On Sat, 18.08.2007 at 19:29:55 +0200, Gonsolo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I know disk space is cheap but having hundreds of megabytes wasted for
> gnome pixmaps I never see or fonts i never use is annoying.
I find the implications of your proposal MUCH more annoying:
* Joe User has to be perm
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