[arch-releng] Bittorrent with webseeds

[Dieter Plaetinck]

On Sat, 24 Jan 2009 14:11:36 +0100
Pierre Schmitz <pierre at archlinux.de> wrote:

> Am Samstag 24 Januar 2009 00:18:15 schrieb Grigorios Bouzakis:
> > On Sat, Jan 24, 2009 at 12:03:57AM +0100, Pierre Schmitz wrote:
> > > Am Freitag 23 Januar 2009 18:46:49 schrieb Aaron Griffin:
> > > > Yes, on one condition - if you do the generation and tracker
> > > > uploads of the torrent files. I did it once and it was a big
> > > > pain. :)
> > >
> > > I can do it (I did it several times before). But: I cannot do it
> > > before Monday evening and it's usefull to setup the torrents at
> > > least one day before the announcement.
> >
> > Sorry for quoting the wrong part of the discussion, but does anyone
> > have any knowledge regarding creation of torrent trackers?
> > IMO it would be preferable to distribute ALL ISOs/IMGs even the
> > alpha/betas using torrents with the least server load as possible.
> > Many distributions have small torrent trackers set up. Maybe its
> > time to have that in Arch too. Especially since theres an Official
> > Release Team now, which plans on providing as much as possible
> > frequent updates. FTR i had suggested the same thing around 2 years
> > ago, but the discussion didnt lead anywhere. Maybe things are more
> > mature now. Im pretty sure that its not so difficult to set up.
> >
> > Greg
> 
> The point is that such a tracker could increase the load of our
> server an more important someone has to maintain and update it. So
> for the next ISO I'll upload it to linuxtracker.org.
> 

Linuxtracker.org is down right now :(

Dieter