On Mon, Aug 11, 2008 at 11:23 AM, David H. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello all. > > I am finally in a position where I could offer a full Master mirror as > a bittorrent mirror. This is due to the fact that I have now > infrastructure which I could donate to Fink. > I do nto know whether this is a good idea or even something desirable, > so I am waiting on your input.
I am not a BitTorrent expert, but from what I understand about seeding files, you would probably have to hook into the mirror scripts and generate .torrent files for everything. Then, there would have to be a system to find the .torrent files for a given source file, and fall back on a regular HTTP/FTP download if that fails. I also wonder about how efficient that would be for smaller files. (There would definitely be advantages for things like GCC or TeX, assuming enough people kept their downloaders going.) Any thoughts on how to let people use their favorite BitTorrent GUI? Some NAT configurations are still not zero-config, so it's good to have a GUI to control how the BT ports are tunneled to the outside world. We have an alternate download directory configuration option, and that could be useful, but we would probably want to automatically download .torrent files there as needed, and that might cause permission problems. All in all, sounds like a good idea, but it seems to me that it would require a lot of work to get started (both infrastructure and client-side code), and at least a little more planning before it becomes obvious whether it is worth pursuing. -- - Charles Lepple ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ _______________________________________________ Fink-devel mailing list [email protected] http://news.gmane.org/gmane.os.apple.fink.devel
