X-Git-Url: https://the.earth.li/gitweb/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=README;h=c329b3b19554fee874949005ddf9417edd00bf47;hb=adc800dbc424a1e246dd4a82a0c2e88eeda25531;hp=be0d3ac1553dd6d267a11f78586d83ebed4fc702;hpb=45aa1540aaa3d76a4ca5509c4666d98ce272c000;p=onak.git diff --git a/README b/README index be0d3ac..c329b3b 100644 --- a/README +++ b/README @@ -1,5 +1,5 @@ -onak 0.3.6 -Copyright 2003-2008 Project Purple. Written by Jonathan McDowell +onak 0.5.0 +Copyright 2003-2016 Jonathan McDowell http://www.earth.li/projectpurple/progs/onak.html @@ -54,15 +54,15 @@ Once make has completed you'll end up with various binaries: Config: -I've finally added config file support. onak.conf is an example config; -the main thing to change is the db_dir to whereever you want to put your -database files. The configure script allows you to specific where it -should live; by default it'll be PREFIX/etc/onak.conf. +I've finally added config file support. onak.ini is an example config; +the main thing to change is the location in the backend section to +whereever you want to put your database files. The configure script allows +you to specific where it should live; by default it'll be PREFIX/etc/onak.ini. Backends: -Currently there is support for 5 different database backends: +Currently there is support for 6 different database backends: * file The original backend. Very simple and ideal for testing. Stores each @@ -75,12 +75,6 @@ Currently there is support for 5 different database backends: with a large number of keys. This may well be due to my use of it - if you can help speed it up info would be appreciated. -* db2 (Berkeley libdb2) - Only added to provide the ability to run the pathfinder with a key - database produced by pksd. Currently only supports pulling keys out by - keyid - no key updating or searching by key test. Found to be - tempramental and prone to deadlock in the db2 library. - * db4 (Berkeley libdb4) The currently preferred backend. Supports the full range of functions like the pg backend but is considerably faster. Also easier to setup @@ -93,6 +87,10 @@ Currently there is support for 5 different database backends: subkey searching). Needs a good filesystem to get good performance though as it creates many, many files and links. +* hkp + A proxying backend. No keys are stored locally; all fetch and store + requests are forwarded to the provided keyserver. + Other keyservers: @@ -138,15 +136,17 @@ onak lives at: http://www.earth.li/projectpurple/progs/onak.html -Development is carried out using arch; you can access the repository +Development is carried out using git; you can access the repository with something like: -tla register-archive noodles@earth.li--2004-laptop \ - http://www.earth.li/~noodles/arch/ -tla get -A noodles@earth.li--2004-laptop onak--mainline--0.3 +git clone git://the.earth.li/onak.git + +or it can be browsed via gitweb at: + +http://the.earth.li/gitweb/?p=onak.git;a=summary License: -onak is distributed under the GNU Public License, a copy of which should -have been provided with this archive as LICENSE. +onak is distributed under the GNU Public License version 2, a copy of +which should have been provided with this archive as LICENSE.