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[Christopher James Halse Rogers <chalserogers@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, 2009-07-20 at 02:29 -0400, Martin Owens wrote:
> Hey gang, JC,
> 
> I've heard news on the Ubuntu planet a few times about apt-zeroconf, but
> each time I check out the launchpad page I read some generic blurb which
> I can't really get my head around.
> 
> So exactly, in dumb terms, what does it do? And can this explanation be
> added to the launchpad project?
> 
> My current theory is that it involves automatically stuffing a surprise
> puppy into every apt package, effectively feeding many of the worlds
> poor as well as updating their software. The only other wild idea was
> that it some how uses avahi to detect local network apt-mirrors or
> caches and auto-configures the local machine to use them.

A little of both.  It stuffs a puppy into your local machine, which then
serves the contents of /var/cache/apt/archives via a small http server
and advertises this over avahi.  This puppy also gets set up as a proxy
for apt, and will use the other proxies it's discovered over avahi.

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