Bug #29
Create P2P mirror infrastructure
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Description
P2P is always cool :D
This would include:
- Create .torrent for every package with all parabola mirrors as webseeds
- Create a pacman XFerCommand that downloads and seeds packages sending the .torrent files to a torrent client (transmission-daemon or others, and also manages seeding policies)
"Seeding policies" meaning upload limit, for how long, etc. transmission-daemon can be configured to seed up until a given ratio or stop after a certain time of inactivity, etc.
Instead of adding all mirrors as webseeds the .torrent creation script could pick three at random...
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Updated by fauno almost 6 years ago
+1 but I'd try first without webseeds. IMO webseeds are not P2P, just download acceleration. A P2P mirror would be seeded by Parabola's community :)
I've downloaded ISOs for other distros, when they have webseeds, no one else seeds them.
Are we sure transmission-daemon is able to seed all of the packages at the same time? What if the torrent would be multi-file, containing the changes between now and the previous torrent? That way you could also help seed less used packages, no?
Updated by bill-auger almost 6 years ago
- Status changed from open to in progress
i just moved this report to the pacman2pacman project - i assume this issue was the original basis for the idea of pacman2pacman
the reason it caught my attention was that i did a reverse sort on all issues - this turned up as the oldest open issue in the system - now that pacman2pacman exists i suppose this issue should be closed - or is pacman2pacman still "in progress" ?