Package: apt-zeroconf Severity: wishlist When running more than one Debian box in a LAN with slow internet access the most often used solution to prevent downloading the same Debian package twice is running apt-cacher or the like on one single machine, a centralized server.
The problem with this solution is, that every machine in the network needs to be configured for this proxy. If it is down, no one can update. If you go to another network, you must tweak your sources.list or apt.conf in order to upgrade, which is quite common nowadays with notebooks and wifi technology. We would therefore be interested in an automatic and peer-to-peer solution. When there is no apt caching daemon in the LAN, we want to fetch the packages directly from the internet. But if there is one or even more available, apt should automatically use it, without any configuration from the user. This is by the way the reason we called it apt-zeroconf in the first place. apt-zeroconf could significantly reduce the bandwidth required by Debian's infrastructure, as there would less hits to its mirrors. The project seems pretty far along. IMHO, including it Debian is a good idea, and will get the ball rolling on further work. Thanks! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
