Quoting Eugen Leitl (2013-07-17 15:37:39) > On Wed, Jul 17, 2013 at 03:24:23PM +0200, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: > > > Then your answer above to your own question makes no sense to me, > > however: The project we are [both] working on cannot substitute its > > Debian packages with something self-hosted, and still be "in > > Debian". > > If you prime the depository from a Debian depository master, but > deliver it a la swarm delivery (using all the online Freedomboxes as a > content delivery network, internally, and verify the signatures using > the official key), would that be still Debian?
If Debian does it as an official practice, then it is Debian. > > describe things that does not fit my understanding of what it is we > > are doing together here - e.g. that this Debian project need not use > > Debian packages. > > Obviously a Debian project needs to use Debian packages. The question > is whether you'd be able to distribute Debian packages from a Debian > depository from within a Freedom-box internal delivery network, making > it self-hosting. Hmm - maybe I simply misunderstood the term "self-hosting". I assumed it implying either freezing or forking (e.g. for security updates) rather than simply proxying. > I realise that today is too early to talk about self-hosting. Maybe not: http://debtorrent.alioth.debian.org/ - Jonas -- * Jonas Smedegaard - idealist & Internet-arkitekt * Tlf.: +45 40843136 Website: http://dr.jones.dk/ [x] quote me freely [ ] ask before reusing [ ] keep private
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