Date: Sun, 25 Aug 1996 13:40:15 +0200 (MET DST) From: Andreas Klemm <andreas@klemm.gtn.com> To: jdp@polstra.com Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: cvsup - the next generation multi purpose netw. distrib. system (even for news ?!) Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.95.960825132316.1968A-100000@klemm.gtn.com>
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Hi John ! Your cvsup package is the greatest I ever saw in this area !!! Because of my damaged CVS repository I'm looking for ways to get it working again. Joerg already sent me a tape (thanks Joerg) but unfortunately I forgot to carry my companies tape device home for the weekend. Since I heard something about cvsupdate in the mailinglist, I thought I give it a try ... This night I was in a worry, because I had to ftp tons of MB's from gatekeeper, because I needed the Modula-3 package ... But I think every byte was worth fetching it ! Currently cvsup is still running at an amazingly speed ! As you mentioned the advantages of cvsup over other network distribution programs like sup and nntp, I got the idea, that it should be possible, to distribute netnews very efficiently via cvsup, because one could treat a newsgroup hierarchie like a checkout CVS repository ... So it should be possible to transmit netnews compressed and very efficiently !!! Ever thought of it replacing inn with cvsup, eh ?! Wouldn't that be an interesting project ?!?! The netnews client would gain full control over the stuff he wants to get or not by simply editing his news.cvsup - file ... And you could even control expire things locally, by _not_ activating the "delete" token in the cvsup-file... One could think about implementing an expire client, that gets the expire date from the same cvsup-file ... news-comp release=news host=news.feed.org hostbase=/var/spool/news base=/usr prefix=/local/news delete compress expire=14 To get the whole comp tree .... I think you (all) have done a very very very good step in developing a great network distribution protocol, that looks so generic, that it would be fun, if one could make a news tranport system out of it as well !!! What do you think of that idea ?! Andreas /// -- andreas@klemm.gtn.com /\/\___ Wiechers & Partner Datentechnik GmbH Andreas Klemm ___/\/\/ Support Unix -- andreas.klemm@wup.de pgp p-key http://www-swiss.ai.mit.edu/~bal/pks-toplev.html >>> powered by <<< ftp://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/Linux/system/Printing/aps-491.tgz >>> FreeBSD <<<
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