[Gllug] Playing with a deployment idea - PXE, bittorrent, remote location

[Alan Peery]

Peter Childs wrote:
> Are you basically suggesting using something like...
>
> Debian Net install with a bittorrent package archive, or something 
> more like LTSP.
>  I don't see why you should not adapt apt to work with bittorrent 
> rather than http, ftp, or cdrom which is already does.
Yes, that is the sort of idea.  Do you have any idea how modular the 
download code is in apt?  If it's modular, this sort of change should be 
relatively simple.

I'd still need to do a bit clever scheduling so that only one client at 
the remote branch pulls packages across the pipe at a time, and 
hopefully carry out download activity in non-business hours.

Alan

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