[tahoe-dev] Getting Tahoe into Debian

[Peter Secor]

The configuration script sounds like a good way of implementing this.  
My goal was to make it easy to connect to something so that it's an  
easy step from installation to backing up an example file.

Ps

On Oct 29, 2008, at 20:03, Brian Warner <warner-tahoe at allmydata.com>  
wrote:

>> It seems like it would be useful if the "tahoe" package could work
>> immediately. How about if we (Allmydata) seed an open free grid that
>> clients point to by default? Their node could be a default client  
>> of that
>> grid (no_storage by default) and they could immediately see things  
>> work.
>
> Eh.. I disagree. Having a package that automatically connects to a  
> service is
> fine, but it shouldn't be the standard one. I think the "tahoe"  
> package
> should provide a tool but not automatically do anything with it, and  
> some
> additional package on top of that could automatically connect you to a
> service. Or, we could put an easy-to-run script in the tahoe  
> package's docs/
> directory, which would create a node that connects to that free  
> grid, but the
> script should not be run by default.
>
> Otherwise, people who want to use tahoe to run a friendnet, or to  
> connect to
> a service of their own choosing, would have to install the "tahoe"  
> package,
> track down whatever account it automatically created, figure out how  
> to
> delete that account, turn off that node, then find out how to create  
> a new
> node for the account they actually care about.
>
> Something like:
>
> % sudo apt-get install tahoe
> % python /usr/share/doc/examples/join-allmydata-test-grid.py
> Welcome to the AllMyData test grid!
> Since ~/.tahoe doesn't already exist, it is being created.
> This will connect you to the free grid run by allmydata.com.
> See URL for more details.
>
> Node created.
> Node started.
> Point your browser at http://localhost:8123/ to get started!
> % tahoe create-alias tahoe:
> % tahoe cp -r ~ tahoe:backups
> % echo "yay"
>
>
> cheers,
> -Brian
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