On Sat, Oct 30, 2004 at 12:42:32PM -0400, Mike Furr wrote: > However, I do feel that having a p2p backend to apt is a very > interesting and feasible distribution method. There is a lot of > structure in the way Debian lays out its archive, from the Package files > to the .deb's themselves, which can be exploited to make this very > efficient.
An interesting experiment would be simply cat-ing all the .debs together and extend BT in some way to just fetch the parts (ie. the .debs) that it needs (and likewise, only mirror hotspots). I don't know enough about the BT protocol to know if this is feasible or not, but it does at least sound interesting :-) /* Steinar */ -- Homepage: http://www.sesse.net/
