[tahoe-dev] Mixing different shares.needed/happy/total settings

[Zooko O'Whielacronx]

On Tue, May 3, 2011 at 8:00 AM, Lionel Bouton
<lionel-subscription at bouton.name> wrote:
>
> First, thanks for an amazing piece of software

You're welcome! Thanks for the encouragement!

>  and thanks to the people
> packaging it for Gentoo: I thought I'll spend quite some time reading
> docs and Python code but the installation and configuration was nearly
> painless (I spent some time trying a manual installation and having
> several deps problems, but the Gentoo ebuilds for 1.8.1 on
> bugs.gentoo.org worked like a charm).

Two requests:

Please update http://tahoe-lafs.org/trac/tahoe-lafs/wiki/OSPackages to
add a row for Gentoo, and

Please try to remember exactly what dependency problems you had when
doing the manual install. I'm assuming you started from the quickstart
doc [1]. Is that right? I'm not aware of any dependency problems on a
system like Gentoo so I would really appreciate a bug report.

> 1/ If I understand correctly, at least "needed" and "total" are only
> used when creating new content (file-encoding.rst: « the encoding
> parameters are included in the hash stored »).

Yes. Hopefully Brian's reply answered your other questions.

I hope your home-made script invokes "tahoe backup" [2]!

Regards,

Zooko

[1] http://tahoe-lafs.org/source/tahoe-lafs/trunk/docs/quickstart.html
[2] http://tahoe-lafs.org/trac/tahoe-lafs/browser/trunk/docs/backupdb.rst