alt Hacker NewsSo what's the answer then? That's the question I wanted answered after reading this article. With no experience with git or package management, would using a local client sqlite database and something similar on the server do?
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AaronFriel • yesterday at 6:44 PM
OCI artifacts, using the same protocol as container registries. It's a protocol designed for versioning (tagging) content addressable blobs, associating metadata with them, and it's CDN friendly.
Homebrew uses OCI as its backend now, and I think every package manager should. It has the right primitives you expect from a registry to scale.
I quite like Gentoo's rsync based package manager. I believe they've used that since the beginning. It works well.