Feature #49
closed
Provide Torrent seeds on doudoulinux.org
Description
We now know that there are many torrents available for DoudouLinux. However, as this is individual initiatives, there are drawbacks:
- the seed may not be available (user's computer is simply off)
- all languages may not be available (because there was not volunteer)
- torrents may not be up to date (the volunteer hasn't heard of the new version)
- we have no download figures for torrents
For these reasons this would be better to host our own torrent trackers and seeds. Many torrent servers exist but as we are currently hosted on a LAMP server only, we need a Php/Ruby application. It seems that this exists as this Google query shows:
Updated by Jean-Michel Philippe almost 13 years ago
- Due date deleted (
08/31/2011) - Start date deleted (
05/02/2011)
Updated by Jean-Michel Philippe over 12 years ago
- Category set to Installation
- % Done changed from 0 to 10
It is possible to easily make a torrent file using mktorrent. It can specifies torrent web seed, which means clients will use our HTTP server as initial seed. The syntax is the following:
$ mktorrent -v -a http://open.tracker.thepiratebay.org/announce -w http://download.doudoulinux.org/file/livecd/1.1/doudoulinux-gondwana-1.1-fr.iso doudoulinux-gondwana-1.1-en.iso
Note that we need the ISO file locally in order to perform computation of pieces. We also need to specify our own torrent tracker in order to be sure to have it work and to make stats.
Updated by Jean-Michel Philippe over 12 years ago
Torrent files can then be registered on freetorrent.fr. It is a good idea to use it as the announcer then ;):
mktorrent -v -a http://www.freetorrent.fr/announce.php -w http://download.doudoulinux.org/file/livecd/1.1/doudoulinux-gondwana-1.1-en.iso doudoulinux-gondwana-1.1-en.iso
Stats can then be fetched from their torrent pages.
Updated by Jean-Michel Philippe over 12 years ago
- Due date set to 10/01/2011
- Status changed from New to In Progress
- Assignee set to Jean-Michel Philippe
- Target version set to Gondwana update 1
- Start date set to 09/29/2011
- % Done changed from 10 to 50
- Estimated time changed from 21:00 h to 6:00 h
We can also use public torrent trackers that don't require authentication nor using their own torrent files:
http://extratorrent.com/article/71/public+open+torrent+trackers.html
Updated by Jean-Michel Philippe over 12 years ago
- Status changed from In Progress to Resolved
- % Done changed from 50 to 100
Updated by Jean-Michel Philippe over 12 years ago
Finally I installed RivetTracker which provides all the required features.
Updated by Jean-Michel Philippe over 12 years ago
- Status changed from Resolved to Closed