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. However, what might work that is somewhere between P2P and mirroring is an apt-cacher cache somewhere in the SLC area with a fat pipe to Ubuntu or Debian upstream, which folks in the SLC area could then use. Independent of that, one could set up an apt-cacher cache on one's own network. -- Charles Curley /"\ ASCII Ribbon Campaign Looking for fine software \ / Respect for open standards and/or writing? X No HTML/RTF in email http://www.charlescurley.com / \ No M$ Word docs in email Key fingerprint = CE5C 6645 A45A 64E4 94C0 809C FFF6 4C48 4ECD DFDB
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