[arch-releng] How to create a torrent for the ISO

[Aaron Griffin]

On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 5:22 PM, Pierre Schmitz<pierre at archlinux.de> wrote:
> Hi engineers,
>
> thanks to a new version of mktorrent it is now easy to create webseed enabled
> torrents. I have updated my wrapper script to use this instead of my evil
> ktorrent hack.
>
> This script can be found at
> http://git.archlinux.de/archlinux-torrent-utils/plain/mktorrent-archlinux
>
> You will need kmtorrent from http://mktorrent.sourceforge.net/; there is also
> a PKGBUILD.
>
> I would suggest to install this on sigurd and also the opentracker on it. This
> way the releng team can create those torrents right on the server and will
> also be able to add those to the trackers whitelist.

Hmmm note that this is NOT the same mktorrent that is in the AUR :roll: