On Fri, Aug 25, 2023 at 12:43 PM Richard Hughes <hughsient@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Hi all, > > I was thinking of adding Passim as a default-installed and > default-enabled dep of fwupd in the Fedora 40 release. Before I create > lots of unnecessary drama, is there any early feedback on what's > described in https://github.com/hughsie/passim/blob/main/README.md > please. > > The tl;dr: is I want to add a mDNS server that reshares the public > firmware update metadata from the LVFS on your LAN. The idea is that > rather than 25 users in an office downloading the same ~2MB file from > the CDN every day, the first downloads from the CDN and the other 24 > download from the first machine. All machines still download the > [tiny] jcat file from the CDN still so we know the SHA256 to search > for and verify. > > The backstory is that as the fwupd grows and grows (to ChromeOS, > FreeBSD, Windows and macOS) we need to scale things up a couple of > orders of magnitude. This isn't specific to firmware stuff, although I > think it makes a great testcase which we could add dnf or ostree > content to in the future. Comments and questions are most welcome. > Thanks, Is this something where you could enable it on one specific device and have a systemd time to pull the metadata and it advertises it to the network so you can designate a single device to run the service? _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to devel-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Do not reply to spam, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/new_issue
