Hi all
Ken Foskey wrote:
I am sure someone has thought about this.
The two implementations that I know of, are:
1. apt-torrent: Available at http://sianka.free.fr/.
This one seems to be under active development as compared to my work below.
I havent gone into much detail with this one, but i
Only the .torrent file needs to be trusted. It contains a SHA-1 hash for
each of the pieces it would expect to download. As long as the .torrent is
signed by say the Debian or Ubuntu key you should be right. Any pieces sent
by bogus seeds will be rejected.
It's funny - I was talking about exactly
Ken Foskey wrote:
Why don't we have apt-bittorrent. I would be happy to participate if
the setup could be set so I could permanently seed any packages in my
package directory with my off-peak data rate and rational throttling.
Ubuntu / debian provides the tracker and a seed, and then the swarm
Ken Foskey wrote:
> I am sure someone has thought about this.
>
> Why don't we have apt-bittorrent. I would be happy to participate if
> the setup could be set so I could permanently seed any packages in my
> package directory with my off-peak data rate and rational throttling.
>
> Ubuntu / debi
On Wed, Nov 08, 2006 at 01:02:07AM +1100, Ken Foskey wrote:
> I am sure someone has thought about this.
Yes, I know Shehjar (cc'd) has thought about it an implemented a
version; I'm sure he'd love to talk about it :)
-i
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I am sure someone has thought about this.
Why don't we have apt-bittorrent. I would be happy to participate if
the setup could be set so I could permanently seed any packages in my
package directory with my off-peak data rate and rational throttling.
Ubuntu / debian provides the tracker and a s
