[svlug] ubuntu 7.10 - go ahead and jump the gun!

Kristian Erik Hermansen kristian.hermansen at gmail.com
Wed Oct 17 14:19:58 PDT 2007


On 10/17/07, Sameer Verma <sverma at sfsu.edu> wrote:
> Indeed the floodgates will open tomorrow, but what if the packages could
> be apt-get (got?) over bit torrent? The packages are all
> cryptographically signed, so if I get bits from all over the place, and
> it still matches the signatures, I should be fine. The closest thing I
> found on running apt-get on top of bit torrent is aptly named (pun very
> much intended) apt-torrent and is available at http://sianka.free.fr/

Is apt-torrent built into standard Debian and Ubuntu?  Ie, can I tell
my friends to install/run apt-torrent and keep it going from tonight
through next week?
-- 
Kristian Erik Hermansen



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