Re: Apt-Torrent project

2004-11-02 Thread Arnaud Kyheng
Mike Furr a écrit : This would probably help as long as you didn't abuse super-seeding. One solution may be to only super seed those packages which are smaller than some threshold and are also in base or have a priority > standard(or something). Like most things, the distribution of popular pa

Re: Apt-Torrent project

2004-11-01 Thread Mike Furr
Arnaud Kyheng wrote: I don't agree with the little package problem with Bittorrent. With Bittornado I'm using as a backend, the super-seeder option answer to this problem since if the package is already well available on the network, it'll not answer to the client but let it download from peers.

Bug#199316: Info received (was Apt-Torrent project)

2004-11-01 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Thank you for the additional information you have supplied regarding this problem report. It has been forwarded to the package maintainer(s) and to other interested parties to accompany the original report. Your message has been sent to the package maintainer(s): APT Development Team <[EMAIL PRO

Re: Apt-Torrent project

2004-11-01 Thread Arnaud Kyheng
Mike Furr a écrit : Arnaud Kyheng wrote: | Hello, | | I love the Debian project, and I have worked on a new development for | it: Apt-Torrent :) Thank you for your contribution. However, I looked at doing something similar to this a little while ago and found that bittorrent is not very well suite

Re: Apt-Torrent project

2004-11-01 Thread Arnaud Kyheng
Matt Zimmerman a écrit : (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. F

Re: Apt-Torrent project

2004-11-01 Thread Arnaud Kyheng
Matthew Palmer a écrit : [...] If we can get individually-signed .debs, you won't even need to worry so much about getting the torrent files off a trusted mirror... That's the idea, since the .torrent are fetched from a trusted server. The .torrents contains a SHA1 checksum which is checked agains

Re: Apt-Torrent project

2004-10-31 Thread Matt Zimmerman
(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

Re: Apt-Torrent project

2004-10-31 Thread Matt Zimmerman
On Sun, Oct 31, 2004 at 12:01:30AM -0500, Adam Majer wrote: > BT doesn't make too much sense here. It is only useful for large files > that do not change often, like woody iso images. I think there are ways that the bittorrent model can be applied successfully. http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bug

Re: Apt-Torrent project

2004-10-31 Thread Matt Zimmerman
On Sat, Oct 30, 2004 at 07:05:12PM +1000, Matthew Palmer wrote: > If we can get individually-signed .debs, you won't even need to worry so > much about getting the torrent files off a trusted mirror... You don't need individually-signed .debs for that; the existing (experimental) archive signing

Re: Apt-Torrent project

2004-10-30 Thread Adam Majer
Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: >On Sun, 31 Oct 2004, Steinar H. Gunderson wrote: > > > >The Azureus Java client does this, so yes, it is possible. How bad this >interacts with the scatter-gatter logic of BT, I don't know. But the >.torrent files would be huge, and they would need to be upd

Re: Apt-Torrent project

2004-10-30 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Sun, 31 Oct 2004, Steinar H. Gunderson wrote: > 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,

Re: Apt-Torrent project

2004-10-30 Thread Steinar H. Gunderson
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

Re: Apt-Torrent project

2004-10-30 Thread Mike Furr
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Arnaud Kyheng wrote: | Hello, | | I love the Debian project, and I have worked on a new development for | it: Apt-Torrent :) Thank you for your contribution. However, I looked at doing something similar to this a little while ago and found that bittorr

Re: Apt-Torrent project

2004-10-30 Thread Marc 'HE' Brockschmidt
Matthew Palmer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Sat, Oct 30, 2004 at 12:00:16PM +0200, Marc 'HE' Brockschmidt wrote: >> Matthew Palmer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> [...] >> > If we can get individually-signed .debs, you won't even need to worry so >> > much about getting the torrent files off a t

Re: Apt-Torrent project

2004-10-30 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Sat, Oct 30, 2004 at 12:00:16PM +0200, Marc 'HE' Brockschmidt wrote: > Matthew Palmer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > [...] > > If we can get individually-signed .debs, you won't even need to worry so > > much about getting the torrent files off a trusted mirror... > > dpkg-sig exists. Use it :)

Re: Apt-Torrent project

2004-10-30 Thread Marc 'HE' Brockschmidt
Matthew Palmer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: [...] > If we can get individually-signed .debs, you won't even need to worry so > much about getting the torrent files off a trusted mirror... dpkg-sig exists. Use it :) Marc -- $_=')(hBCdzVnS})3..0}_$;//::niam/s~=)]3[))_$(rellac(=_$({pam(esrever })e$.

Re: Apt-Torrent project

2004-10-30 Thread Matthew Palmer
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

Apt-Torrent project

2004-10-30 Thread Arnaud Kyheng
Hello, 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