[Gllug] Bittorrent and security?

[Chris Bell]

On Mon 23 Aug, Richard Hall wrote:
> 

> 
> I think they are only distributing the CD images of the main releases 
> with BT as it is almost impossible to manage the file concurrency across 
>   a multi peer system like BT.   A new torrent would need to be created 
> and a completely different CD image seeded daily to keep up with the 
> nightly builds.  This would lead to not many people seeding the 
> appropriate image as they would be seeding an out of date one within 
> 24h, possibly before they even finished downloading it.
> 
> That's why they are pushing Jigdo for the nightly images.
> 
   Is it not possible to just pull in the missing bits with Bittorrent? I am
so used to doing this with the combination of Jigdo and apt-proxy, but the
weekly Sarge - Testing CD set has not been updated for a couple of weekends.
I understand that they are rebuilding the complete set from scratch and
hoping to release the stable version 3.1 soon afterwards.


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Chris Bell

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