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18. May 04 - Released StandAloneAptGot v0.8pre1

Today I released the first preview of version 0.8. Please keep in mind that it is a preview and should be treated as alpha software. It is not fully tested and still lacks some important features. Now Release files in the Debian repository are found and parsed for md5sum infos for the various Package list. The information is used to verify the Package lists. Right now this is only done when the mirror engine is started for the first time. So you have to restart the whole StandAloneAptGot every time there are new Package lists on the remote server. This is one of the important changes that have to be made in order to release version 0.8. One random fact: There are 2000 more lines of code in v0.8pre1 than in v0.7.2. Yeah - I've been busy. ;o)

25. Apr 2004 - Released StandAloneAptGot v0.7

Now apt-got features a non-blocking downloading system. Every byte that is recieved from the remote server is send to the clients instantaniously. No more waiting around until the file is completely mirrored.
Additionally there are some minor bugfixes included in this release. Get it at sourceforge.

15. Apr 2004 - Feedback? Wow!

The wonderful feedback I got on just one day forced me to update the online documentation of apt-got. It was just amazing.
Well, I will double my efforts to implement your features requests and answer the support requests. I hope that the reviewed online documentation will help you out.

13. Apr 2004 - Sourceforge.net

Project gets registered with sourceforge.net.

Mar 2004 - Project continues

Tobi continues to develop the project as CS189b senior programming project.

14. Jan 2004 14:00 - Project starts

Well, now it is written in stone. Our CS50 project at UCSB is called apt-got.

Tobias Hertkorn, 20. Jan 2004 17:11

Apt-Got
Drastically Reduce Bandwidth Usage and Download Time

Apt-Got

Are you tired of manually copying the packages to your second Debian machine to save download time and bandwidth?
Are you trying to build a partial debian mirror - but are frustrated by the existing solutions?
And you don't want to potentially waste even more bandwidth by mirroring the whole Debian package archive?

Well - I was.
What we are trying to build here is a partial Debian mirror, that is populated on-the-fly. Meaning, that the first request from a client will fetch the package from the remote server. This package will be cached locally and delivered to the second client requesting it, without redownloading it from the server. This saves bandwidth, download time and is good for your download quota, actually saving you money.

In addition to that, this project will include some functionallity other scripts don't have, like falling back on a second mirror, when you first choice mirror is down.
As we know, introducing a new program to a server is an additional security risk. That's why we chose to write it in Java.

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Tobias Hertkorn, 16. Feb 2004 17:51

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