On Sun, Feb 8, 2009 at 7:13 PM, Charles Plessy <ple...@debian.org> wrote: > 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! >
Is there a capability of creating a mirror that would use torrent technology? If you have these .deb packages that are big (could you list few, with their sizes), I was under the assumption that having torrent mirror was possible but rejected because most packages are small <1m. If torrent mirror is possible then one could create big.debian.org which would be a mirror of big packages that are distributed via torrent only. Let me know what options we have there. Thanks, Lucas -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-med-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org