On Tue, 2006-11-21 at 09:55 +0100, Toni Mueller wrote: > Hi, > > On Sun, 19.11.2006 at 16:35:21 +0100, Franz Pletz <fpletz@franz-pletz.org> wrote: > > * share your apt-cache with others on your LAN transparently using > > avahi > > * automatic file-list-updates using inotify > > * acts as a http server and proxy for apt > > would you consider it feasible to add auto-detection features to > apt-proxy, so machines hooking up to a LAN could automatically find and > use instances of apt-proxy if available Therefore we need to patch apt-proxy to announce itself in the network [through avahi]. Adding avahi-support to apt-proxy is a good idea in general - I think, since not only apt-zeroconf can make some use of it. It would be easy to use apt-proxy [with avahi support] as 'fallback' within apt-zeroconf: If azc cant find any other azc instance with the needed file it would use a apt-proxy if available otherwise it fetches the files directly from the mirror. That would be the best way to go in my opinion. > and/or allow apt-proxy > instances to mesh with each other (eg. for increased performance)? We decided to implement azc from scratch and not expand apt-proxy so we will not do it now. If you want a more decentralized caching facility use apt-zeroconf. Its under development and much things are missing that apt-proxy supports. But this will change hopefully soon. Thanks for the respond, i belief we get some new ideas from it. Florian Ludwig
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