On 2025-01-31 15:17:00, Hendrik Boom wrote:
> 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?

It may or may not, but that's up to someone else to write
apt-transport-bittorrent. Currently there is no such thing.

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