[csw-maintainers] Populating private checkpkg databases via REST

[Peter FELECAN]

Maciej Bliziński <maciej at opencsw.org> writes:

> On Wed, Jan 30, 2013 at 07:13:25PM +0100, Peter FELECAN wrote:
>> "Maciej (Matchek) Bliziński" <maciej at opencsw.org> writes:
>> 
>> > While I'm wresting with the memory leak in catalog indexing, I got the
>> > idea that instead of unpacking and indexing everything locally, we
>> > could make people's private build hosts download data from our
>> > buildfarm. What do you think?
>> 
>> Your proposition has merit but I think that we should keep things
>> reproducible even without OpenCSW's infrastructure; in an extreme case,
>> somebody wishing to build in an unconnected bunker (viz. a bank or stuff
>> like that) can do it.
>
> Sure. I wouldn't think about this data load as of a dependency, but just
> as an optional speedup.

Well, if it's only an optional optimization, why not.

-- 
Peter