Date: Thu, 23 Jan 2003 18:21:19 -0800 From: Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com> To: Hunter Peress <hfastjava@yahoo.com> Cc: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>, chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: BitTorrent Mirror of 5.0 Message-ID: <3E30A31F.59DE067B@mindspring.com> References: <20030123202001.51397.qmail@web41306.mail.yahoo.com>
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Hunter Peress wrote: > On Thu, 2003-01-23 at 13:57, Kris Kennaway wrote: > > 2) Post to FreeBSD lists to announce your BT mirror when releases are > > made. Mention why people might want to try it this way instead of > > using ftp which they already understand and love. > > That IS exactly what I did, that is exactly why you are responding to > me right now. This current email that I am writing is part of a thread > that was started for this exact purpose. > > As you can see, this is very much like the chicken and the egg. > Therefore, in order to get out of this cycle, other things need to be > done. 1) Add support for it to "fetch" 2) Add support for it to "sysinstall" 3) Add support for it to "pkg_add" 4) Make the data these programs operate against available on your "bit torrent" server somewhere (e.g. "bt.freebsd.org"). -- Terry To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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