net-fs/cvmfs/metadata.xml


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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE pkgmetadata SYSTEM "https://www.gentoo.org/dtd/metadata.dtd">
<pkgmetadata>
  <maintainer type="person">
    <email>amadio@gentoo.org</email>
    <name>Guilherme Amadio</name>
  </maintainer>
  <longdescription lang="en">
  The CernVM-File System (CernVM-FS) provides a scalable, reliable and low-
  maintenance software distribution service. It was developed to assist High
  Energy Physics (HEP) collaborations to deploy software on the worldwide-
  distributed computing infrastructure used to run data processing applications.
  CernVM-FS is implemented as a POSIX read-only file system in user space (a
  FUSE module). Files and directories are hosted on standard web servers and
  mounted in the universal namespace /cvmfs. Internally, CernVM-FS uses content-
  addressable storage and Merkle trees in order to maintain file data and
  meta-data. CernVM-FS uses outgoing HTTP connections only, thereby it avoids
  most of the firewall issues of other network file systems. It transfers data
  and meta-data on demand and verifies data integrity by cryptographic hashes.
  </longdescription>
  <use>
    <flag name="server">Install the cvmfsd program and init script</flag>
  </use>
  <upstream>
    <remote-id type="github">cvmfs/cvmfs</remote-id>
  </upstream>
</pkgmetadata>