On Thu, May 03, 2001 at 10:01:44AM +1000, Brian May wrote: > >>>>> "Matt" == Matt Zimmerman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Matt> I discussed the idea a bit with James Troup, and one of his > Matt> concerns was that the database would be centralized, not > Matt> distributed over many mirrors like the packages themselves. > Matt> This would be a scalability problem if such a system were to > Matt> become popular. Judging by the response that > Matt> apt-listchanges received, and the interest people have in > Matt> the idea, it just might. > > What about a distributed database, eg. openldap with slave LDAP > servers?
Replicating the database is not hard, especially since it is for the most part read-only, and updates would come from one source. The problem is where to host these distributed database servers. The archive mirror network has the advantage of being well-established and relatively low-maintenance for the operators (I hope). Maybe I'll start by running it as a public service on one of my servers, and see what kind of load it imposes. The first thing, of course, is to get a hook where I can process each source package as it comes in. katie may not be the right place for this, but I'd say that lintian runs would be. -- - mdz
