(CCing the BTS, where this feature request is already tracked)
On Sat, Oct 30, 2004 at 10:35:53AM +0200, Arnaud Kyheng wrote:
I love the Debian project, and I have worked on a new development for it: Apt-Torrent :)
Apt-Torrent is an apt proxy to the Bittorrent network. For security, the package listing, and the .torrent files are downloaded from a regular http server, as usual for a package, but then the whole package is fetched via bittorrent protocol and forwarded to apt :)
Interesting; I hadn't considered implementing this as a proxy. It would probably be better to subclass an existing HTTP server implementation, rather than to implement a subset of HTTP in your package.
At the moment apt-torrent is implemented like a real http server. This line is added in /etc/apt/sources.list by the package:
deb http://127.0.0.1:6968/debian/ unstable main
From the apt point of view, it's a real http package repository, which could also be a package source repository (deb-src) as well.
Arnaud
