Am Fri, 4. Apr 2008, 12:53:26 +0200 schrieb Thijs Kinkhorst: > > debtorrent: support can be added by inserting the following line into > > /etc/apt/apt-file.conf: > > Thanks for your patch - I'd gladly include it but must admit that I don't > know how to test debtorrent. I perhaps could find out, but if you have a > quick example of how this would work the bug could be fixed sooner :-)
6 Steps to test --------------- 1. Install debtorrent and apt-transport-debtorrent. 2. Replace 'deb http://' by 'deb debtorrent://localhost:9988/' in your /etc/apt/sources.list. 3. Verify that apt can still update package lists and download Packages. 4. Try apt-file update -- it should fail. 5. Add the line from my initial report to /atc/apt/apt-file.conf. 6. Try apt-file update again -- it should work now. A bit of background ------------------- About debtorrent, from debtorrents package description: | DebTorrent is a proxy for downloading Debian packages files with | APT. It will download any needed packages from other DebTorrent | peers in a bittorrent-like manner, and so reduce the strain on the | Debian mirrors. | | The DebTorrent client runs as a daemon, automatically started on | bootup, and listens for requests from APT for files. Any non-package | files are downloaded and served to APT similarly to other proxying | software (e.g. apt-proxy, apt-cacher, and approx). The configuration | is very simple, and only involves prepending a server and port to | your current sources.list files (similar to apt-cacher). So, when you have a line like | deb http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/ lenny main in your sources.list, with debtorrent it becomes | deb http://localhost:9988/ftp.de.debian.org/debian/ lenny main This setup works with apt-file out of the box. So, by default, apt communicates with debtorrent via http://. But debtorrent also offers the debtorrent:// protocol for that purpose, which has some advantages. To use the debtorrent:// protocol with apt, install apt-transport-debtorrent. From apt-transport-debtorrents package description: | However, using this method has some advantages over HTTP. Unlike the | traditional HTTP method, this transport will send all possible | requests to DebTorrent as soon as it recieves them, which will speed | up the download as peers can be contacted in parallel. This method | also allows the DebTorrent client to return files to APT in any | order, which is important since BitTorrent downloads proceed in a | random order. Additionally, this method uses a very similar protocol | to HTTP, and so can easily be used to access a DebTorrent client | running on another host. With the debtorrent protocol the sources.list entry becomes | deb debtorrent://localhost:9988/ftp.de.debian.org/debian/ lenny main But now apt-file fails, because apt-file doesn't know about debtorrent://. The fix is simple: use the http:// method instead to talk to debtorrent. We simply have to replace debtorrent:// with http://. Thats exactly what the debtorrent handler from my initial report does. Thanks, Jö. -- http://www.heise.de/tp/deutsch/inhalt/te/17529/1.html "Wer nichts zu verbergen hat, kann auch seine echte Emailadresse angeben." -- Luke321 im Telepolis-Forum
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