[oe] content addressable fetching of packages, through MD5SUM or SHA1SUM?

[Leon Woestenberg]

Hello,


I wonder if someone knows about a content addressable file server, or
content addressable URL server?

The idea is that the bitbake fetcher does not use the SRC_URI provided
URL per se, but can fall back to use the SHA1SUM or MD5SUM to ask
"something" for alternative locations of the package.


Such a "server" would implement a two table database:

|authentic file name|md5sum|sha1sum|

(the primary key is |md5sum|sha1sum|)

In a different table, all instances of valid URI that provide this
content are collected

|md5sum|sha1sum|URI|


Now, this might be a Google SoC project, and something that Google
should have already.


Regards,
-- 
Leon