Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 1 Feb 1999 15:21:10 +0100 | From | (Tor Arntsen) | Subject | Re: Bloat thread... |
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In article <fa.i08jbcv.h5a6qn@ifi.uio.no>, Richard Gooch <rgooch@atnf.csiro.au> writes: >Larry McVoy writes: >> Probably what would be a much better use of this bandwidth would be for >> someone to volunteer idle cycles on their Whizzbang 1000 Intel box as >> a compile server for the latest & greatest. It sure seems like this >> would be useful and you could make a combination of config files and >> built kernels & modules available for ftp. Somebody should talk to >> lma@varesearch.com about this. > >You could even have it accept config files via email and send the URL >back. Maybe add the config file to a database. Many >possibilites. Someone might even be able to make money out of it.
That should work, the SGI patch service works almost like that already -- you feed it your setup and it figures out what you need and gives you an URL so you can go and get a tar file with your personal set of patches. It's great!
- Tor
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