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

[David Fox]

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

A nice idea, and there is something similar sounding that I've used a
few times on Debian, which is called jigdo-lite. The idea behind that
is similar - you have a number of repositories which each contain some
of the same stuff. The downloader (configured with a file) dowlnoads a
bit at a time, verifies, adds the bits to the iso, goes back and gets
some more (probably from a different mirror), until everything is
complete.

There shouldn't be anything really that different between the ubuntu
delivery system vs. the debian delivery systems - they're pretty much
the same, except for the names & locations of the repositories.
Theoretically, with enough possible repositories, it could resemble
bittorrent.

Unfortunately, I don't know the ubuntu infrastructure that well - my
main system runs Debian Lenny.

> Sameer