I recall hearing some apt-torrent type things, but I don't know if they're very complete.
But here's the deal: rather than write a whole new package manager apt-get neatly divides transport mechanisms. This way, you can write a handler for whatever transport you desire (in this case, local network) and let someone else handle the hard work of debugging the rest of it. apt-cache does this, for example, as do the other ones that Charles mentioned.
If you want "discoverability" then it might make sense to start with apt-cache and come up with a way to publish apt-cache service on mdns, and a hook to scan mdns services for it. But from a security standpoint, it seems like more hassle than just setting up an apt-proxy and adding a single line to sources.list, so I imagine this is why nobody's put much effort into it.
Justin Dugger
On 9/20/07, Jonathan Hutchins hutchins@tarcanfel.org wrote:
On Thursday 20 September 2007 03:39:19 pm Billy Crook wrote:
So I'm guessing the answer is: No, nobody has heard of a package manager that does this on its own.
Yeah, don't you love the responses that say "I know absolutely nothing about this, here is my expert opinion on it!"? _______________________________________________ Kclug mailing list Kclug@kclug.org http://kclug.org/mailman/listinfo/kclug