[Bug 681163] Re: Add an Apt-P2P tab to the 'software sources'-window

[Matthew Paul Thomas]

*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 533416 ***
    https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/533416

** This bug has been marked a duplicate of bug 533416
   Apt-p2p needs some promotion

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Title:
  Add an Apt-P2P tab to the 'software sources'-window

Status in The synaptic package manager:
  Invalid
Status in “software-properties” package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  Rationale:

  As stated in Ubuntu Brainstorm Idea #26532
  (http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/idea/26532/) a decentralized software
  distribution concept could reduce the community's dependency on
  expensive server infrastructure. Apt-P2P (http://www.camrdale.org/apt-
  p2p/) acts as a proxy between apt requests and a repository server,
  downloading any requested files from peers (if possible), but falling
  back to a direct HTTP download. The question is: How is it possible to
  faciliate the usage of Apt-P2P?

  Feature Request:

  A Peer-to-Peer tab should be added to software-properties (the
  'software sources'-window of Synaptic and Ubuntu Software Center),
  including a button to activate P2P networking (which could mean to
  install the apt-p2p package) and a list of all software sources listed
  in sources.list (which could look like the software sources list in
  the 'other software'-tab) where the user could activate/deactivate
  every single source for apt-p2p. If no source would be activated, the
  apt-p2p daemon could be deactivated (there's a option in /etc/default
  /apt-p2p).

  Additionally there could be an 'options'-button & -subwindow where
  users can set the most important apt-p2p options (like the upload
  limit etc., see /etc/apt-p2p/apt-p2p.conf).

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