Torrent will not work as well as FTP or rsync mirrors. You have to update the .torrent files. I'm not sure how that works though.
On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 11:25 AM, Jari Häkkinen <j...@flygarna.se> wrote: > Maybe using torrents could help in distributing flightgear packages? I > haven't used this distribution method myself but the mirror maintainers > could maybe create seeds and announce them though the flightgear web > site(s). > > > Jari > > > On 2/24/10 5:15 PM, Curtis Olson wrote: >> This message is primarily directed to those of you who maintain mirrors of >> the FlightGear ftp content. Heads up! :-) >> >> For quite some time ftp.flightgear.org has resided on a machine I manage >> myself. This worked out pretty well mostly when I set it up, but since then >> my work situation has changed and I no longer have physical access to the >> machine. In addition, the ftp drive on this machine has died. It's an >> older machine, it's not convenient for me to get to it, and I think it's >> time to start looking at moving on. >> >> Currently I am able to push content to 3 ftp sites. So if you maintain a >> mirror, please stop mirroring from ftp.flightgear.org and point to one of >> the following machines. mirrors.ibiblio.org is probably the preferred >> source if you were going to pick just one. >> >> ftp://mirrors.ibiblio.org/pub/mirrors/flightgear/ftp/ >> ftp://ftp.kingmont.com/flightsims/flightgear/ >> ftp://ftp.goflyflightgear.com/flightgear/ >> >> I notice that mirrors.ibiblio.org does offer an anonymous rsync daemon with >> flightgear as one of the available targets (run "rsync mirrors.ibiblio.org::" >> to see the available ibiblio.org rsync targets, and note the double colon in >> the syntax.) >> >> I am hopefully that as many of our mirror maintainers as possible can get >> their mirroring source adjusted quickly to help distribute the load of the >> upcoming v2.0.0 release across as many servers as possible. >> >> Best regards, >> >> Curt. >> >> >> >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> Download Intel® Parallel Studio Eval >> Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed compiling, find bugs >> proactively, and fine-tune applications for parallel performance. >> See why Intel Parallel Studio got high marks during beta. >> http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-sw-dev >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Flightgear-devel mailing list >> Flightgear-devel@lists.sourceforge.net >> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-devel > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Download Intel® Parallel Studio Eval > Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed compiling, find bugs > proactively, and fine-tune applications for parallel performance. > See why Intel Parallel Studio got high marks during beta. > http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-sw-dev > _______________________________________________ > Flightgear-devel mailing list > Flightgear-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-devel > -- Brant Gipson ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Download Intel® Parallel Studio Eval Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed compiling, find bugs proactively, and fine-tune applications for parallel performance. See why Intel Parallel Studio got high marks during beta. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-sw-dev _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-devel
