To my surprise debtorrent is pretty functional... Bad thing it doesn't work under proxy (firewall), so I can't take advantage of it at work...
Still is pending for me a set of good practices, how much disk space would be decent, etc... Javier. On Sun, Nov 7, 2010 at 3:49 PM, Javier Vasquez <j.e.vasque...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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. > -- 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/aanlktikaybaxelxc1a82z2m05jex68f9mzs3fb5sb...@mail.gmail.com
