P2P Package Manager

[Justin Dugger]

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 at 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!"?
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