Whatever happened to apt-sync?

[Evan]

On Sat, Jun 28, 2008 at 5:33 AM, Felix Feyertag <felix.feyertag at gmail.com>
wrote:


> In 2006 I participated in summer of code to implement this, the project
> website is:
>
> https://launchpad.net/apt-sync
>
> The code is functional and I'm using it successfully on my home computer
> (usually saving around 50-90% on minor updates and 30% on a dist-upgrade),
> however I do not have resources available to distribute aptsync files, so
> it's not possible for me to perform any wide-scale testing.
>
> The issue is:
>
> AptSync requires a repository of `.aptsync' files to be stored server-side.
> These .aptsync files store control information about each file in the actual
> Ubuntu repository.
>
> To host such a repository, the following would be required:
>  * Local access to a complete and up-to-date Ubuntu mirror
>  * The ability to run `aptsyncmake' (Python) to construct .aptsync files
> for every file in the mirror
>  * Webspace to store the repository. A rough estimate of space required is
> 50-100MB, and it need not be stored in the original repository tree (or even
> on the same server)
>
> If anyone has the above resources and would be willing to help me get this
> project into swing, then I'd be happy to hear!
>
> Alternatively, I've been toying with the idea of setting up a mechanism to
> automatically create and distribute aptsync files via peer-to-peer.
>
>
> Felix
>
>
If the code is functional, shouldn't this be pushed to Ubuntu to be used by
their repositories? Or would the CPU drain for aptsyncmake on that many
packages be too much?
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