On Thu, 18 Oct 2007 at 23:03 -0600, Charles Curley wrote: > On Thu, Oct 18, 2007 at 08:39:31PM -0600, Hans Fugal wrote: > > I think it's time the major apt-like package managers got on the ball > > and implemented downloading packages in a p2p fashion. I'm not > > interested in reinstalling from CD. I'm not even interested in > > downloading a CD bittorrent and doing some übergeek upgrade by changing > > sources.list to point to the CD or something. It's just easier to let it > > download all day. > > > > Alas, we barely have digitally signed package management infrastructure, > > which has been years in coming and still has glitches. That makes p2p > > fall squarely in the camp of pipe dream, I think. > > I wonder. Bittorrent seems to take a while to get rolling. That's no > big deal when you have one monster file lie a DVD ISO to pull in. But > individual packages can be as small as 10KB. Plus the overhead of > establishing a connection, etc. I wonder if bittorrent would be fast > enough with a lot of smaller files to justify itself.
Good point, though one could certainly use regular http or ftp if it's a small transfer, and without too much high-falutin' intelligence, pool all the packages into one transfer (this wouldn't work with straight bittorrent, but it's within reason). -- Hans Fugal ; http://hans.fugal.net There's nothing remarkable about it. All one has to do is hit the right keys at the right time and the instrument plays itself. -- Johann Sebastian Bach
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