So 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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encom 11 hours ago | parent | next [-]

I quite like Gentoo's rsync based package manager. I believe they've used that since the beginning. It works well.

	▲	MarsIronPI 5 hours ago \| parent [-]
		To be clear though, the rsync trees come from a central Git repo (though it's not hosted on GitHub). And syncing from Git actually makes syncing faster.

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AaronFriel 7 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

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.