#8866 NORM Not Tri: Metalinks for software updates

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#8866: Metalinks for software updates
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 Reporter:  antb          |         Owner:               
     Type:  defect        |        Status:  new          
 Priority:  normal        |     Milestone:  Not Triaged  
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 I've made a metalink for the software downloads on
 http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Release_Notes/8.2.0

 A metalink is an XML file that lists checksums, mirrors, signatures, &
 other useful info for downloads. (I didn't see a list of mirrors, but
 metalink downloaders will fallback to other mirrors if one went down, and
 also use checksums to recover from errors). This type of error recovery
 would possibly be good for places where XO is used that have flaky
 internet connections.

 A number of Linux distributions use metalink for ISO downloads (Fedora,
 openSUSE, Ubuntu, & others), along with OpenOffice.org.

 http://www.metalinker.org/samples/OLPC_8.2.0_gg-767-4.img.metalink

 A good amount of metalink software is in Python, which could be
 convenient.

 Metalink Checker checks mirrors and downloads files.
 Metalink Library (CLI) / Editor (GUI) create metalinks, as does Fedora's
 MirrorManager.

 http://www.metalinker.org/

 http://metalinks.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/metalinks/checker/checker.py

 http://code.google.com/p/metalink-library/

 http://metamirrors.nl/metalink_editor

 https://hosted.fedoraproject.org/mirrormanager

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