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 / debian provides the tracker and a seed, and then the swarm > takes over and if you wanted to mirror, eg Optus, you simply become a > seed yourself. > > The apt tracker would have entries for every valid package (valid being > stable, testing, unstable) you would simply connect to the 'known' > tracker for that package and BT download it. > I believe this has been discussed before I even brought it up a while ago on irc. I think from that discussion someone said it was possibly being worked on, but having the trackers also be seeders would be a good idea. Or you could look at for the time being apt-mirror or apt-proxy
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