Date: Tue, 01 Jan 2013 11:46:20 +0100 From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Ren=E9_Ladan?= <rene@freebsd.org> To: "Simon L. B. Nielsen" <simon@FreeBSD.org> Cc: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org, Alan Amesbury <amesbury@oitsec.umn.edu> Subject: Re: 9.1-RELEASE announcement and BitTorrent? Message-ID: <50E2BE7C.3090408@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <CAC8HS2E=RMcziY9GT2nKrtX3%2BJKMTtidV5kiG4OBS-ir9t=PRw@mail.gmail.com> References: <50E0EAD8.2080009@oitsec.umn.edu> <CAC8HS2E=RMcziY9GT2nKrtX3%2BJKMTtidV5kiG4OBS-ir9t=PRw@mail.gmail.com>
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On 01-01-2013 11:07, Simon L. B. Nielsen wrote: > On 31 December 2012 01:31, Alan Amesbury <amesbury@oitsec.umn.edu> wrote: >> The FreeBSD 9.1-RELEASE announcement located at >> >> http://www.freebsd.org/releases/9.1R/announce.html >> >> says, "[t]he required files can be downloaded via FTP or BitTorrent as >> described in the sections below..." but makes no further mention of >> BitTorrent. I see torrents.freebsd.org still has a 503 error up with a note >> saying it probably won't be back. Is the plan to host FreeBSD's releases >> via one of the well known public trackers (e.g., publicbt.com) or to >> completely abandon that method of distribution? Either way, the >> announcement probably should be changed, i.e., either list the BitTorrent >> methods available or remove all mention of BitTorrent. > > Yes, it was a copy/paste error from previous annouments and should > probably be removed from the online copy. re@ CC'ed for that. > [ re@ dropped again ] > There isn't really a plan yet AFAIK. The old setup just wasn't > sustainable so it had to be taken down. Some people have looked at > trackerless setups but AFAIK not yet in detail on setting something > up. > There is some unofficial volunteer effort to provide BitTorrent downloads for FreeBSD 9.1 at http://www.gotbsd.net/ René
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