[opensuse-factory] perfect 10.2 GM download

2006-12-07 Thread Frank-Michael Fischer
I'd just like to share my excitement how fast the openSUSE-10.2-GM-DVD-i386.iso download went this morning. The corresponding x86_64 torrent is pretty fast, too, quite an improvement from last release. Congratulations! FMF - To

Re: [opensuse-factory] perfect 10.2 GM download

2006-12-07 Thread Dominique Leuenberger
>>> Reply on 07-12-2006 12:59:46 <<< > I'd just like to share my excitement how fast the > openSUSE-10.2-GM-DVD-i386.iso download went this morning. > > The corresponding x86_64 torrent is pretty fast, too, quite an > improvement from last release. > > Congratulations! > something I can only

Re: [opensuse-factory] perfect 10.2 GM download

2006-12-07 Thread jdd
Frank-Michael Fischer a écrit : I'd just like to share my excitement how fast the openSUSE-10.2-GM-DVD-i386.iso download went this morning. The corresponding x86_64 torrent is pretty fast, too, quite an improvement from last release. bitorrents where diffused in advance, thanks to openSUSE ad

Re: [opensuse-factory] perfect 10.2 GM download

2006-12-07 Thread houghi
On Thu, Dec 07, 2006 at 12:00:55PM +0100, Dominique Leuenberger wrote: > something I can only second. The download I started last night was > perfectly finished this morning (downloaded i586 and x86_64 isos). And I > 'only; have a 2mbit DSL. > > And a promise on the side: I'll continue seeding it

Re: [opensuse-factory] perfect 10.2 GM download

2006-12-07 Thread Peter Czanik
Hello, I started seeding a yesterday, and seeded already over 300G before announcements :-) I wonder what happens then, now I'm seeding with 6 megabytes / sec... Bye, CzP - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional c

Re: [opensuse-factory] perfect 10.2 GM download

2006-12-07 Thread Patrick Shanahan
* houghi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [12-07-06 06:51]: > Same here. I download now via Azureaus with about 350kB/s with peaks to > 450. This is the fastest torrent I have ever seen. Maximum download I can > get via e.g. FTP would be 500kB. me2, aria2c -M openSUSE-10_2-GM-DVD-x86_64_iso.metalink about 60

Re: [opensuse-factory] perfect 10.2 GM download

2006-12-07 Thread Carlos E. R.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 The Thursday 2006-12-07 at 08:59 -0500, Patrick Shanahan wrote: > me2, aria2c -M openSUSE-10_2-GM-DVD-x86_64_iso.metalink > about 600.00 KB/s, but only 7 connections (usually 45-55) Same here - well, about 100 KB, the maximum of my adsl link. >

Re: [opensuse-factory] perfect 10.2 GM download

2006-12-07 Thread Francis Giannaros
On Thursday 07 December 2006 14:27, Carlos E. R. wrote: > Will aria2c seed? I don't think so, but :-? aria2 is also a torrent client, so if you plug in the .torrent file into it, it will start seeding, yeah. Regards, Francis. -

Re: [opensuse-factory] perfect 10.2 GM download

2006-12-07 Thread Carlos E. R.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 The Thursday 2006-12-07 at 15:45 -, Francis Giannaros wrote: > > Will aria2c seed? I don't think so, but :-? > > aria2 is also a torrent client, so if you plug in the .torrent file into it, > it will start seeding, yeah. I plugged in the metal

Re: [opensuse-factory] perfect 10.2 GM download

2006-12-07 Thread Francis Giannaros
On Thursday 07 December 2006 16:18, Carlos E. R. wrote: > I plugged in the metalink link, obviously; and it is not seeding. It is > pulling from ftp servers only, AFAIK. Yes, like I said, it won't seed unless you use the torrent file ("obviously"). The links that metalink files provide are just m

Re: [opensuse-factory] perfect 10.2 GM download

2006-12-07 Thread Patrick Shanahan
* Francis Giannaros <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [12-07-06 12:14]: > Yes, like I said, it won't seed unless you use the torrent file > ("obviously"). The links that metalink files provide are just > mirrors. If you want to see, grab the .torrent file and seed the > already-downloaded ISO that you have. Th

Re: [opensuse-factory] perfect 10.2 GM download

2006-12-07 Thread Carlos E. R.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 The Thursday 2006-12-07 at 17:10 -, Francis Giannaros wrote: > Yes, like I said, it won't seed unless you use the torrent file > ("obviously"). > The links that metalink files provide are just mirrors. If you want to see, > grab the .torrent f

Re: [opensuse-factory] perfect 10.2 GM download

2006-12-07 Thread Carlos E. R.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 The Thursday 2006-12-07 at 18:04 -0500, Patrick Shanahan wrote: > The torrent wants to do the download again. How do you see w/o > repeating the dl at the much slower torrent speeds. It would be possible to: - start btdownloadcurses - allow it t

Re: [opensuse-factory] perfect 10.2 GM download

2006-12-07 Thread Patrick Shanahan
* Carlos E. R. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [12-07-06 19:00]: > The Thursday 2006-12-07 at 18:04 -0500, Patrick Shanahan wrote: > > > The torrent wants to do the download again. How do you see w/o > > repeating the dl at the much slower torrent speeds. > > It would be possible to: > > - start btdownloa

Re: [opensuse-factory] perfect 10.2 GM download

2006-12-07 Thread Carlos E. R.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 The Thursday 2006-12-07 at 20:13 -0500, Patrick Shanahan wrote: > > I don't know if ares2c is capable of a similar thing, but I had thought > > the metalink file included torrents as well. > > Apparently not :^(, I'm uploading at nearly the same r

Re: [opensuse-factory] perfect 10.2 GM download

2006-12-07 Thread Boyd Lynn Gerber
On Fri, 8 Dec 2006, Carlos E. R. wrote: > The Thursday 2006-12-07 at 20:13 -0500, Patrick Shanahan wrote: > > > > I don't know if ares2c is capable of a similar thing, but I had thought > > > the metalink file included torrents as well. > > > > Apparently not :^(, I'm uploading at nearly the same

Re: [opensuse-factory] perfect 10.2 GM download

2006-12-08 Thread Carlos E. R.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 The Thursday 2006-12-07 at 21:28 -0700, Boyd Lynn Gerber wrote: > > > > ares2c destroyed my download. It finished with a checksum error, then it > > destroyed the downloaded file. I'm not using it again :-/ > > Did you use the guru rpm's? I did not

Re: [opensuse-factory] perfect 10.2 GM download

2006-12-08 Thread Francis Giannaros
On Friday 08 December 2006 11:07, Carlos E. R. wrote: > The Thursday 2006-12-07 at 21:28 -0700, Boyd Lynn Gerber wrote: > > > ares2c destroyed my download. It finished with a checksum error, then > > > it destroyed the downloaded file. I'm not using it again :-/ > > > > Did you use the guru rpm's?

Re: [opensuse-factory] perfect 10.2 GM download

2006-12-08 Thread Carlos E. R.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 The Friday 2006-12-08 at 12:22 -, Francis Giannaros wrote: > > Yes, I did. It is a problem with the client itself (aria2c) or the > > protocol, not of the package preparer. That client is not reliable. I'm > > certainly not trying again and wasti

Re: [opensuse-factory] perfect 10.2 GM download

2006-12-08 Thread Dave Cotton
On Fri, 2006-12-08 at 16:38 +0100, Carlos E. R. wrote: > > The fact is, my download did not checksum, and instead of repairing it, > aria2c destroyed it and started afresh. That is an undeniable fact: it is > a broken client. I had the same thing happen with ktorrent. -- Dave Cotton <[EMAIL

Re: [opensuse-factory] perfect 10.2 GM download

2006-12-08 Thread Carlos E. R.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 The Friday 2006-12-08 at 16:49 +0100, Dave Cotton wrote: > I had the same thing happen with ktorrent. Broken downloads of ktorrent can be repaired with btdownloadcurses. It works. - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Ve

Re: [opensuse-factory] perfect 10.2 GM download

2006-12-08 Thread Francis Giannaros
On Friday 08 December 2006 15:38, Carlos E. R. wrote: > I have seen no such praise here. I will actively dis-recomend it to > anybody thinking of using it, at least till I'm convinced problems have > been solved. Enjoy. > The fact is, my download did not checksum, and instead of repairing it, > a

Re: [opensuse-factory] perfect 10.2 GM download

2006-12-08 Thread Carlos E. R.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 The Friday 2006-12-08 at 16:53 -, Francis Giannaros wrote: > For you, yes, perhaps. For me the only fact is that something went wrong, not > that there's anything wrong with the client. In fact, all the prior evidence > I've had implies the dir

Re: [opensuse-factory] perfect 10.2 GM download

2006-12-08 Thread Francis Giannaros
On Friday 08 December 2006 17:38, Carlos E. R. wrote: > You call that reliable? It is no more reliable than a single http/ftp > download. That is annoying, but again, I'm not particularly worried about http/ftp unreliability. i.e. the danger is there, but if aria2 is going to ensure that I get a

Re: [opensuse-factory] perfect 10.2 GM download

2006-12-08 Thread Volker Kuhlmann
> 1) Novell did not prepare metalink files with segment information. > 2) the aria2c client doesn't handle segment checksums. > > You call that reliable? It is no more reliable than a single http/ftp > download. It is far less reliable than a single ftp/http from a good server if the download

Re: [opensuse-factory] perfect 10.2 GM download

2006-12-08 Thread Boyd Lynn Gerber
On Sat, 9 Dec 2006, Volker Kuhlmann wrote: > > 1) Novell did not prepare metalink files with segment information. > > 2) the aria2c client doesn't handle segment checksums. > > > > You call that reliable? It is no more reliable than a single http/ftp > > download. > > It is far less reliable than

Re: [opensuse-factory] perfect 10.2 GM download

2006-12-08 Thread Francis Giannaros
On Friday 08 December 2006 22:54, Boyd Lynn Gerber wrote: > Could you update the page at http://en.opensuse.org/Metalinks with an > exact command. My friends are out for a few days and there computer is > not online for me to quickly gramd the command I used. I do not have the > time right now to

Re: [opensuse-factory] perfect 10.2 GM download

2006-12-08 Thread Carlos E. R.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 The Friday 2006-12-08 at 18:53 -, Francis Giannaros wrote: > On Friday 08 December 2006 17:38, Carlos E. R. wrote: > > You call that reliable? It is no more reliable than a single http/ftp > > download. > > That is annoying, but again, I'm not p

Re: [opensuse-factory] perfect 10.2 GM download

2006-12-08 Thread Eberhard Moenkeberg
Hi, On Sat, 9 Dec 2006, Francis Giannaros wrote: > On Friday 08 December 2006 22:54, Boyd Lynn Gerber wrote: > > Could you update the page at http://en.opensuse.org/Metalinks with an > > exact command. My friends are out for a few days and there computer is > > not online for me to quickly gramd

Re: [opensuse-factory] perfect 10.2 GM download

2006-12-08 Thread Francis Giannaros
On Saturday 09 December 2006 00:19, Carlos E. R. wrote: Granted, the problem is with aria2. I hear the developer is working on this. Needless to say, the main reason I'd use metalinks is because (i) I don't have to search around for a good mirror; (ii) I get insane download speeds (I max out e

Re: [opensuse-factory] perfect 10.2 GM download

2006-12-08 Thread Carlos E. R.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 The Saturday 2006-12-09 at 00:32 -, Francis Giannaros wrote: > Granted, the problem is with aria2. I hear the developer is working on this. > Good. > Needless to say, the main reason I'd use metalinks is because (i) I don't > have > to searc

Re: [opensuse-factory] perfect 10.2 GM download

2006-12-08 Thread Francis Giannaros
On Saturday 09 December 2006 00:23, Eberhard Moenkeberg wrote: > I would recommend simply "rsync -avv ..." because most servers have a > setting of "dont compress = *". I see. Edited the page now, thanks. Regards, Francis. pgpo1cykdr1ud.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [opensuse-factory] perfect 10.2 GM download

2006-12-08 Thread Boyd Lynn Gerber
On Sat, 9 Dec 2006, Carlos E. R. wrote: > The Saturday 2006-12-09 at 00:32 -, Francis Giannaros wrote: > > Granted, the problem is with aria2. I hear the developer is working on this. ... > Provided the client doesn't erase the already downloaded part without > asking first: it does that. I had

Re: [opensuse-factory] perfect 10.2 GM download

2006-12-08 Thread Eberhard Moenkeberg
Hi, On Sat, 9 Dec 2006, Francis Giannaros wrote: > On Saturday 09 December 2006 00:23, Eberhard Moenkeberg wrote: > > I would recommend simply "rsync -avv ..." because most servers have a > > setting of "dont compress = *". > > I see. Edited the page now, thanks. And you can shorten the destina

Re: [opensuse-factory] perfect 10.2 GM download

2006-12-08 Thread Francis Giannaros
On Saturday 09 December 2006 01:08, Eberhard Moenkeberg wrote: > And you can shorten the destination parameter to . if the filename is the > same as at the source. Hey! It's a wiki, anyone can edit :P Regards, Francis. pgpD8fH8hjq3s.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [opensuse-factory] perfect 10.2 GM download

2006-12-08 Thread Eberhard Moenkeberg
Hi, On Sat, 9 Dec 2006, Francis Giannaros wrote: > On Saturday 09 December 2006 01:08, Eberhard Moenkeberg wrote: > > And you can shorten the destination parameter to . if the filename is the > > same as at the source. > > Hey! It's a wiki, anyone can edit :P Surely, but it is better the "curre

Re: [opensuse-factory] perfect 10.2 GM download

2006-12-08 Thread Boyd Lynn Gerber
On Sat, 9 Dec 2006, Eberhard Moenkeberg wrote: > On Sat, 9 Dec 2006, Francis Giannaros wrote: > > On Saturday 09 December 2006 01:08, Eberhard Moenkeberg wrote: > > > > And you can shorten the destination parameter to . if the filename is the > > > same as at the source. > > > > Hey! It's a wiki, a

Re: [opensuse-factory] perfect 10.2 GM download

2006-12-09 Thread Carlos E. R.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 The Friday 2006-12-08 at 18:04 -0700, Boyd Lynn Gerber wrote: > > Provided the client doesn't erase the already downloaded part without > > asking first: it does that. I had no chance to repair the download. > > Instead of rechecking or repairing, it