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
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.
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
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
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
(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
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
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
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
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,
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
-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
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
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 :)
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
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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
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