On Thu, 2007-10-18 at 20:39 -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.
There was an article[1] a while back about using Freenet to distribute Debian packages. It's certainly possible and assuming a certain wide adoption of Freenet would make sense. The article was from 2002 and I haven't seen any significant progress toward that end, so clearly it's not an itch that anybody has cared enough to scratch. Corey 1. http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/4847 /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */
