Bug#176733: ITP: bittorrent -- scatter-gather network file transfer
Actually, in its current state, it wouldnt work well for the individual
packages that apt gets.
Months ago, I emailed the mirrors list, and you'll soon see some mirrors
"serving" their isos using this.
packages are too small, and too mirrored for bittorrent to work well.
with bittorrent, you want as many people as possible contributing at the
same time for the given file. Hence, given their large size, iso's will
keep a bittorrent user there for quite a while, thereby raising the
probability that someone else will be there for him to send to.
On Sat, 2003-02-01 at 02:06, Glenn Maynard wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 14, 2003 at 04:35:37PM -0600, Michael Janssen wrote:
> > Package: wnpp
> > Version: unavailable; reported 2003-01-14
> > Severity: wishlist
> >
> > * Package name : bittorrent
> > Version : 3.1
> > Upstream Author : Bram Cohen <bram@bitconjurer.net>
> > * URL : http://bitconjurer.org/BitTorrent
> > * License : MIT
> > Description : scatter-gather network file transfer
>
> Geez. This thing is just begging to meet APT. :)
>
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