From owner-freebsd-chat Thu Jan 23 18:23:30 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7A3DE37B401 for ; Thu, 23 Jan 2003 18:23:29 -0800 (PST) Received: from stork.mail.pas.earthlink.net (stork.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.120.188]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0955443E4A for ; Thu, 23 Jan 2003 18:23:29 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from tlambert2@mindspring.com) Received: from pool0463.cvx22-bradley.dialup.earthlink.net ([209.179.199.208] helo=mindspring.com) by stork.mail.pas.earthlink.net with asmtp (SSLv3:RC4-MD5:128) (Exim 3.33 #1) id 18btUQ-0002lZ-00; Thu, 23 Jan 2003 18:22:43 -0800 Message-ID: <3E30A31F.59DE067B@mindspring.com> Date: Thu, 23 Jan 2003 18:21:19 -0800 From: Terry Lambert X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.79 [en] (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Hunter Peress Cc: Kris Kennaway , chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: BitTorrent Mirror of 5.0 References: <20030123202001.51397.qmail@web41306.mail.yahoo.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-ELNK-Trace: b1a02af9316fbb217a47c185c03b154d40683398e744b8a4ac06470c581d13d6557b5bed77636beb548b785378294e88350badd9bab72f9c350badd9bab72f9c Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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