From owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jan 1 10:46:25 2013 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8B8BC3AD; Tue, 1 Jan 2013 10:46:25 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from r.c.ladan@gmail.com) Received: from mail-ee0-f51.google.com (mail-ee0-f51.google.com [74.125.83.51]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DD9E38FC0A; Tue, 1 Jan 2013 10:46:24 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-ee0-f51.google.com with SMTP id d4so6344717eek.38 for ; Tue, 01 Jan 2013 02:46:23 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=x-received:sender:message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to :cc:subject:references:in-reply-to:x-enigmail-version:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=OGoriKPCzj+TtmsWgekCTONTNCqRepGO1X2BBTM/pc4=; b=0/yqNGXGu9D9QR3sB4pTMN7Ss/G4oV43smaVMIidrMdtxtzlkkDdntImvhttUIn0xy nnzkZGxTxr8MaX1JaVuhDX7hOSfHRewNlHxi0KfGrJaWbSYNJpkNMgLSBKsOAuMwb/zz JMSjpmjU4r4tXlknRtquqVZyV8sfYUVsLP4+Ypokrjrf6b6cby8WCRY/5Ftdq/rkjUXX RsSXOQfLLgURIJQKG2H08mbPqUA1lIm3y/yzc0oqLQ0Nt0DRppSKbZiH6ojiwtEOnuAL A4hYyRmZTlwZIBFUwYtp/XlFzKp9nono5j2AHm6id5HwyfAgG9uVetsOMN9geiSRArek 9vpA== X-Received: by 10.14.221.5 with SMTP id q5mr116703748eep.33.1357037183845; Tue, 01 Jan 2013 02:46:23 -0800 (PST) Received: from [192.168.123.167] (136-206-ftth.onsbrabantnet.nl. [88.159.206.136]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id d3sm90438673eeo.13.2013.01.01.02.46.21 (version=SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Tue, 01 Jan 2013 02:46:22 -0800 (PST) Sender: =?UTF-8?Q?Ren=C3=A9_Ladan?= Message-ID: <50E2BE7C.3090408@freebsd.org> Date: Tue, 01 Jan 2013 11:46:20 +0100 From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Ren=E9_Ladan?= User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; FreeBSD amd64; rv:17.0) Gecko/17.0 Thunderbird/17.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Simon L. B. Nielsen" Subject: Re: 9.1-RELEASE announcement and BitTorrent? References: <50E0EAD8.2080009@oitsec.umn.edu> In-Reply-To: X-Enigmail-Version: 1.4.6 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Cc: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org, Alan Amesbury X-BeenThere: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Documentation project List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 01 Jan 2013 10:46:25 -0000 On 01-01-2013 11:07, Simon L. B. Nielsen wrote: > On 31 December 2012 01:31, Alan Amesbury 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