DebTorrent

Hi, last night I had your typical "can't quite get to sleep yet" thoughts about distributing packages through torrent protocol, and sure enough, it has been tried in the past: https://wiki.debian.org/DebTorrent Is there any movement with this in present time? Just the prospe

Re: debtorrent - how to limit the used space

On Wed, Jun 26, 2013 at 9:03 PM, Jean-Marc wrote: > Hi everybody, > > I use debtorrent but it uses a lot of space (1.8G / 2.7G) from my /var FS. > > Any idea how to limit this to max. 1G ? I dont know specifics about debotrrent, maybe there is some parameter, but you could just p

debtorrent - how to limit the used space

Hi everybody, I use debtorrent but it uses a lot of space (1.8G / 2.7G) from my /var FS. Any idea how to limit this to max. 1G ? -- Jean-Marc pgphWYvmOeKqc.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: DebTorrent status and apt-p2p howto...

To my surprise debtorrent is pretty functional... Bad thing it doesn't work under proxy (firewall), so I can't take advantage of it at work... Still is pending for me a set of good practices, how much disk space would be decent, etc... Javier. On Sun, Nov 7, 2010 at 3:49 PM, Javi

DebTorrent status and apt-p2p howto...

Hi, I like torrent a lot as a mechanism to share information. I believe the DebTorrent project is great cause it might enable upgrading systems not necesarily from one mirror but from different seeders and leechers, freeing up resources, and perhaps making upgrades faster, and all under the user

Apt-P2P and DebTorrent

Which is better to use, apt-p2p or debtorrent? What about apt-transport- debtorrent; will it talk to apt-p2p? Can you use both, perhaps layering on top of an existing apt cacher? Do both use your connection constantly? I'm on a semi-metered connection on only want to participate in the

Re: How can I clean the cache of debtorrent?

Hi Samuel, Thanks for the information. I had some trouble finding the list you refer to; I think I found it: debtorrent-devel. Regards, Simon Samuel Bächler-2 wrote: > > Hi Simon > > I just saw that there is a debtorrent-specific mailing-list. I never > used debtorrent be

Re: How can I clean the cache of debtorrent?

Hi Simon I just saw that there is a debtorrent-specific mailing-list. I never used debtorrent before Simon Pepping @ Home wrote: How can I clean the cache of debtorrent? I did this by find, also cleaning empty directories, but that was too aggressive, and brought debtorrent in a non-startable

How can I clean the cache of debtorrent?

How can I clean the cache of debtorrent? I did this by find, also cleaning empty directories, but that was too aggressive, and brought debtorrent in a non-startable state: 2008-10-18 09:37:35,499 MainThread DebTorrent.launchmanycore ERROR SYSTEM ERROR - EXCEPTION GENERATED Traceback (most recent