[tahoe-dev] Debian packages?

[bertagaz at ptitcanardnoir.org]

On Wed, Apr 20, 2011 at 03:05:09PM +0200, Olivier Schwander wrote:
> Le 20 Apr 2011 14:38, bertagaz at ptitcanardnoir.org a écrit:
> > A configuration system like the one provided by the openvpn Debian package
> > could be the way to implement that simply: 
> > 
> > /etc/default/tahoe containing a list of nodes to start automatically.
> > 
> > Each node configuration would lie under a /etc/tahoe/$NAME directory,
> > owned by the right UID/GID with correct permissions, storage_dir key being
> > automatically set to /var/lib/tahoe/$NAME, again with the right UID/GID
> > and perms.
> > 
> > The init script would source /etc/default/tahoe, check each node
> > configuration dir in /etc/tahoe/ and its UID/GID, start each node with
> > the right options and owners.
> 
> This solution sounds good but I am not sure of the benefit of this.
> Actually, I am wondering if there really many tahoe users which run
> multiple nodes with different nodes (I suppose it happens when you want
> to connect to different grids, with different quota for each node/user
> ?).

Well, at least this way each case is possible : running a single node, or
many. Maybe if a Debian package is released without this feature, people
will show up asking for such a feature, maybe not, we'll see. :)

bert.