On Sat, Feb 01, 2025 at 01:26:03AM +1000, onefang wrote:
> On 2025-02-01 01:20:48, onefang wrote:
> > The documentation for setting up a Devuan package mirror says to let me
> > know if your mirror is using HTTP, HTTPS, FTP, or rsync. I suspect those
> > last two are not actually needed. I want to get rid of them.
> >
> > Apt doesn't look like it supports rsync at all, so no idea why that's in
> > there.
>
> I forgot to mention that during my research I did find a "Braindump"
> about using rsync like protocal for apt, perhaps even rsync itself, and
> apply it to the contents of .deb files. Which is the only sane way of
> using rsync for this sort of thing, it's not any sort of advantage
> otherwise. That was in 2008 from Ubuntu, but it seems to have not gone
> anywhere since.

Would bittorrent make sense as another protocol for apt?

-- hendrik