Hi, I like torrent a lot as a mechanism to share information. I believe the DebTorrent project is great cause it might enable upgrading systems not necesarily from one mirror but from different seeders and leechers, freeing up resources, and perhaps making upgrades faster, and all under the user control (one can decide when to start sharing, when to stop sharing, and which favorite engine to use, I like and only use rtorrent btw, download bandwidth, upload bandwidth, etc). Any ways does any one know the status of debTorrent? Is it to come to reality anytime soon?
I realize there's also apt-p2p, but it's not torrent, which I prefer. At any rate, it allows also sharing among users. However, as I have never used it, I'm wondering some things, for example even if a package gets hashed into a DHT (distributed hash table), if I clean up the downloaded packages through "aptitude clean", then the packages are no longer available, and this should cleanup also the DHT I hope (since the package is no longer available in the box). But this also implies changing upgrade habits, for example I always cleanup the cache before and after every upgrade (it's useful to prevent growing the disk cache area)... However if one uses like me unstable distribution and keeps periodically upgrading the boxes, one can't just never do "aptitude clean", since that mean keeping not the latest versions of each packet, but several old ones as well, and that for me is a no go... Doing apt-clean only before upgrading might be a good practice, since then one just keeps the recently downloaded packages, but of course previously downloaded ones are lost. This is not that bad if people periodically upgraded systems, since then the only ones required are the latest packages upgraded, and this for now sounds like my way to go if I decide to use apt-p2p. Notice these might be valid issues for debTorrent as well, though I like torrents better given the flexibility and controllability it provides. So is there kind of good practices guide for using apt-p2p, including how to keep just the latest version of packages downloaded? And if debTorrent is already functional and ready for testing, are there similar guides for it as well? Thanks, -- Javier. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/aanlktikhcacb3=9wfdjucacya6mci4+=ld-ep=ktg...@mail.gmail.com
