apt-transport-debtorrent(1)				      General Commands Manual				       apt-transport-debtorrent(1)

NAME

       apt-transport-debtorrent -- an APT transport for communicating with DebTorrent

DESCRIPTION

       The apt-transport-debtorrent package contains the APT debtorrent transport, which gets installed in /usr/lib/apt/methods.  It makes it pos-
       sible to use 'deb debtorrent://localhost:9988/foo distro main' type lines in your sources.list file. You don't need to run the method your-
       self, it will be started automatically by APT.

       This  manual  page  documents  briefly  the options available to the debtorrent method.	For an overview of the DebTorrent program, see the
       'debtorrent' package.

       You don't actually need this package to use the DebTorrent program, it will work fine using the regular http:// transport.

       However, using this method has some advantages over HTTP. Unlike the traditional  HTTP  method,	this  transport  will  send  all  possible
       requests  to  DebTorrent  as  soon as it recieves them, which will speed up the download as peers can be contacted in parallel. This method
       also allows the DebTorrent client to return files to APT in any order, which is important since BitTorrent downloads proceed  in  a  random
       order.  Additionally,  this method uses a very similar protocol to HTTP, and so can easily be used to access a DebTorrent client running on
       another host.

OPTIONS

       The options below are used by APT when calling the debtorrent method. For a description of how APT reads these options,	see  the  apt.conf
       man page. The options are available to be modified in the /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/20debtorrent file.

       Acquire::debtorrent::Timeout seconds;
		 the number of seconds of inactivity before the request will timeout and the method will give up (defaults to 300)

       Acquire::debtorrent::NoCache true|false;
		 if this is true, then APT will not store copies of the downloaded package files in its cache (defaults to false)

       Debug::Acquire::debtorrent true|false;
		 whether to output debugging messages while the method is downloading files (defaults to false)

SEE ALSO

       apt.conf(5), debtorrent-client(1)

AUTHOR

       This manual page was written by Cameron Dale <camrdale@gmail.com> for the Debian system (but may be used by others).  Permission is granted
       to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU General Public License, Version 2 or any later version published
       by the Free Software Foundation.

       On Debian systems, the complete text of the GNU General Public License can be found in /usr/share/common-licenses/GPL.

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