Re: [Flightgear-devel] An important message for mirror maintainers

2010-02-24 Thread Curtis Olson
On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 10:47 AM, Stefan Seifert wrote: > But torrents can be a great addition. I usually download new openSUSE > releases > much quicker using the torrent and continue to seed for quite some time. > It's > a very useful technology. I wouldn't envision a torrent for the entire ft

Re: [Flightgear-devel] An important message for mirror maintainers

2010-02-24 Thread Stefan Seifert
On Wednesday 24 February 2010 17:34:19 Brant Gipson wrote: > 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. But torrents can be a great addition. I usually download new openSUSE releases much quicker using the to

Re: [Flightgear-devel] An important message for mirror maintainers

2010-02-24 Thread Brant Gipson
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 wrote: > Maybe using torrents could help in distributing flightgear packages? I > haven't used this distribution method

Re: [Flightgear-devel] An important message for mirror maintainers

2010-02-24 Thread Jari Häkkinen
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 primaril

[Flightgear-devel] An important message for mirror maintainers

2010-02-24 Thread Curtis Olson
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