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

Paul Cupis paul at cupis.co.uk
Tue Jul 10 12:54:42 UTC 2007


On Tue, Jul 10, 2007 at 11:41:13AM +0100, Alan Peery wrote:
> 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.

http://debtorrent.alioth.debian.org/

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