Le Mon, Feb 09, 2009 at 12:57:12AM +0100, Peter Palfrader a écrit : > > The data.debian.org thing is actually Joerg's proposal, he first raised > it at http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2008/05/msg00970.html last > year.
Hi Peter, thanks for the pointer. I think that I will keep on exploring the possibility of distributing data in Debian binary format with no Debian source package for the moment. Jorg's proposal just doubles the bandwith requirements for the uploads, and many databases are updated monthly… I plan to use our getData tool to update some mirrors locally, and build Debian packages from this. By the way, I am wondering about the possiblity to use hard links during this process to avoid unnecessary duplication of large files. Any hint ? My current plan is : - Prepare a Debian Med image for the Amazon Elastic Computing Cloud, that would only contain programs packaged in Debian, with the exception of packages from backports.org, which I think are trustable enough even if they are not official. - From within the Amazon system, build binary packages of bioinformatical data, and distribute them on the Amazon Simple Storage system, if it is possible to open to the inside (free transfer), but not to the outside (costs me money). - See if people use the data packages in conjuction with the unofficial-but-gpg-signed Debian Med image that I indend to prepare. - Ask for sponsorship if it starts to cost too much :) Of course, help from people interested is most welcome! There are a few started threads on the debian-med mailing list, for which I have not found time to answer properly because my lack of progress: in parallel to this project there is a major update of BioPerl, that pulls many things by spaghetti effect. But be sure that I welcome all feedback! Have a nice day, -- Charles Plessy Debian Med packaging team, http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-med Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-med-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org