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churchy n00b
Joined: 05 Jan 2005 Posts: 5 Location: Exeter
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Posted: Wed Jan 05, 2005 12:46 am Post subject: Would it be possible to use Bittorent style p2p with emerge? |
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I had this bright spark last week while downloading some large files.
If emerge had the option of using bittorent for download emerge updates in the same way snapshots are availible then in may help decrease server load espeically at peak times.
This is assuming that server load is currentily an issue and that this idea has never been tried!
Let me know whether any one thinks this is a good idea.
I don't have the abillity to implement it myself.
So if anyone would like use the idea or make an official proposal that would be great! |
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ToeiRei Veteran
Joined: 03 Jan 2005 Posts: 1191 Location: Austria
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Posted: Wed Jan 05, 2005 12:50 am Post subject: |
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just some mind game...
For huge files you can use 'deltup' which just sends over differences to files you already got. It uses kind of a wrapper for sending requests.
correct me if I'm wrong: If there is a torrent-master for distfiles, it should not be a great hassle to implement it as a fetch-method
Rei _________________ Please stand by - The mailer daemon is busy burning your messages in hell... |
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Pythonhead Developer
Joined: 16 Dec 2002 Posts: 1801 Location: Redondo Beach, Republic of Calif.
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Posted: Wed Jan 05, 2005 3:32 am Post subject: |
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Search the forums, its been discussed as recently as a day ago. |
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dudumomo n00b
Joined: 29 Apr 2008 Posts: 42
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Posted: Wed Mar 09, 2011 11:10 am Post subject: |
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Quite an old topic but I have the same question...(I wasn't able to find the post mentionned)
Does Gentoo have any tools like an emerge-p2p to emerge our package from P2P network ?
I really like the P2P network and philosophy, as we all share files.
I know Ubuntu got some something like that, called apt-p2p (But I've never tried)
Thanks for your update ! |
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Raptor85 Apprentice
Joined: 29 Dec 2007 Posts: 208
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Posted: Thu Mar 10, 2011 12:12 am Post subject: |
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I actually like this idea, it would make it somewhat easier to grab old packages that are out of the main tree. (And some packages seem to drop off all the mirrors VERY quickly, making it hard to upgrade if you need to hit an intermediate step due to dependencies) |
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dudumomo n00b
Joined: 29 Apr 2008 Posts: 42
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Posted: Thu Mar 10, 2011 12:27 pm Post subject: |
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Indeed.
Does Gentoo have something like that ? |
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TJNII l33t
Joined: 09 Nov 2003 Posts: 637 Location: for(;;);
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Posted: Thu Mar 10, 2011 1:50 pm Post subject: |
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Raptor85 wrote: | I actually like this idea, it would make it somewhat easier to grab old packages that are out of the main tree. (And some packages seem to drop off all the mirrors VERY quickly, making it hard to upgrade if you need to hit an intermediate step due to dependencies) |
Yes, this would be a big plus. I'd participate to get this feature. _________________ Maintaining documentation on upgrades is apparently not within the power of Gentoo
Beware when you emerge -u world! |
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bobspencer123 Guru
Joined: 19 Dec 2005 Posts: 544
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Posted: Thu Mar 10, 2011 2:00 pm Post subject: |
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just wanted to say that I would gladly help with this if it became an available feature as I have a sheevaplug that runs 24/7 as a seedbox, amongst other things. _________________ Increasingly becoming a 2 channel audio nut! |
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tomk Bodhisattva
Joined: 23 Sep 2003 Posts: 7221 Location: Sat in front of my computer
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