[sync request] Please sync debtorrent from Debian unstable (main)

Another project with similar goals, in the planning stages... Debtorrent... http://wiki.debian.org/DebTorrent

Apt-torrent doesn't appear to be in active development,

Debtorrent is: http://debtorrent.alioth.debian.org/

If no one minds I would like to switch this request to be for Debtorrent.

Sync request generally ACKed, needs to go through https://wiki.ubuntu.com/FreezeExceptionProcess#head-c9d177822a71b90ec5fb703ed0d0f30eeb8fc1db now.

Perhaps this should wait until after the freeze is lifted.

If it makes sense to have it, get a freeze exception, else we'll have it in Hardy.

Debtorrent seems like a great feature, but it is probably to late to get it working for Gutsy?

It needs to have some extra repository meta data generated. For Debian these files are available at http://merkel.debian.org/~ajt/extrapieces/. This URL is also hard coded into the python source code.

To run on Ubuntu somebody would have to arrange for the same files to be generated periodically for ubuntu using the included "hippy.py" script. This needs to be run on some machine which have a local mirror. Then of course the source needs to be changed to point to this URL, or better make it a configure option.

Cameron, would you please update this sync request matching latest debian revision? Also you should attach here a build log of the debian package inside an hardy pbuilder, so I can directly ack this. Thanks

I updated the description with info from the latest version (0.1.4.4). Attached is the log from building it in a hardy pbuilder, which is error free (the package is all python, so I expect it would build properly on just about any version of ubuntu. :)

Acked.

As I said in my previous reply debtorrent will NOT work without the necessary infrastructure. Debtorrent is a great idea, but a sync is unfortunately not enough to get it working on Ubuntu.

I guess Cameron will fix it for Ubuntu as soon as the package gets synced inside the archive.

Actually, a sync WILL get you a working package. DebTorrent will currently work without the extra infrastructure that Par describes, it will just be less efficient at peer-to-peer sharing than if that extra information was available. Here's a link to the relevant question in the FAQ:

http://debtorrent.alioth.debian.org/FAQ.html#index3h4

I installed DebTorrent on my ubuntu gutsy machine and it works fine for downloading packages. I'm hoping to get it into Ubuntu now so that people can try it out and then eventually someone can be convinced to add the infrastructure needed to support the more efficient sharing.

I fully agree with you about this, Cameron. When the package will be synced, we can try it out for a while and then report back any feedback to improve the package for Ubuntu. Thanks again for your work.

synced

I installed DebTorrent on my ubuntu gutsy to. Everything runs well. For installation I used this package from the debian-repository http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/pool/main/d/debtorrent/

Package has been synced into Ubuntu as well, we just have to wait to have it built so you'll be able to apt-get it directly on your Gutsy machine.

Ok. Now I know what snyc means :)
What's about the apt-transport-debtorrent package? http://debtorrent.alioth.debian.org/apt-transport-debtorrent.html
I think it is usefull for debtorrent. See the page.
Perhaps I'm talking about thinks allready done. I'm new to all of this :)

I've looked into the apt-transport-debtorrent package, but it won't currently build in Ubuntu due to a difference in the apt versions. It's a bug in apt for the 2 versions not to be API-compliant, so I'm just waiting for it to be fixed in apt. Then I'll file a sync request for that one too.

I am very excited to see the integration of debtorrent. Think of the gain in efficiency here, especially around release date. No doubt this could be a killer feature if, at some point in the future, it were enabled by default. The end-points have an aggregated bandwidth of much more than any amount of public mirrors could ever possibly be. The Storm worm has made us really understand the power of numerous bandwidth aggregations at the end-points. Very cool to see Ubuntu on the cutting edge again.

See a related bug I filed here before I discovered this thread:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/106382