Date: Mon, 21 Feb 2011 03:04:39 -0500 From: grarpamp <grarpamp@gmail.com> To: freebsd-hubs <freebsd-hubs@freebsd.org> Subject: torrent and ftp distribution nits... Message-ID: <AANLkTinj=NZmVcLhKs-hDobG0f74Y2EAZqYz_-ah_GRW@mail.gmail.com>
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Might I suggest that the 'Directory:' name for all the torrents be set to the same thing. Such as: <osname>-<M.m>-<tag>-<platform>-images That way people wanting to seed the '-all' set and one or more of the individual '-whatever' disc torrents don't have to create a symlink farm of all the 'Directory:' names to a holding dir, or a hardlink farm of all the images, in order to save space on their drives. Depends whether bt clients would complain/delete the 'extra' files residing under the managed torrent dir. Mine don't. The checksum files and a gpg signature around them should also be included in all the torrents and in the ftp dirs. You may wish to consider a '.sums' file per image that would contain sums for that image, with a corresponding sig file. Or simply use one .sums file with sums for all images and .sig that. Inefficient example from 8.1... # Name: 8.1-RELEASE-i386-all dtorrent -x e67f4ebb4c5e6329c655fdca6edffc0ffa6add0a.torrent META INFO Announce: http://torrents.freebsd.org:8080/announce Created On: Thu Jul 22 00:07:20 2010 Piece length: 1048576 FILES INFO Directory: 8.1-RELEASE-i386-all <1> FreeBSD-8.1-RELEASE-i386-bootonly.iso [47958016] <2> FreeBSD-8.1-RELEASE-i386-disc1.iso [676384768] <3> FreeBSD-8.1-RELEASE-i386-dvd1.iso [2170732544] <4> FreeBSD-8.1-RELEASE-i386-livefs.iso [261816320] <5> FreeBSD-8.1-RELEASE-i386-memstick.img [948244480] Total: 3914 MB # Name: FreeBSD-8.1-RELEASE-i386-dvd1 dtorrent -x 8bb4fb4d114fb7da3ce9991488fa78eb7ba7664f.torrent META INFO Announce: http://torrents.freebsd.org:8080/announce Created On: Thu Jul 22 00:14:51 2010 Piece length: 1048576 FILES INFO Directory: FreeBSD-8.1-RELEASE-i386-dvd1 <1> FreeBSD-8.1-RELEASE-i386-dvd1.iso [2170732544] Total: 2070 MB # Name: for remaning_image in $remaining_images ; do : ; done
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