On Tue, Jan 22, 2008 at 12:34:25PM +0100, Mattias Wadenstein wrote: >On Tue, 22 Jan 2008, Frans Pop wrote: > >>On Tuesday 22 January 2008, Steve McIntyre wrote: >>>On Mon, Jan 21, 2008 at 08:12:11PM +0100, Jens Franik wrote: >>>>Guten Tag Mattias Wadenstein, >>>> >>>>am Sonntag, 20. Januar 2008 um 10:29 schriebst Du: >>>>But the only item, which has been downloaded until now is >>>>the Update-i386-DVD with 1,26 Mb - nothing more. >>>> >>>>I guess nobody really needs them :-) >>> >>>Yup. Oldstable point releases are like that. There tends to be rather >>>more interest in new major stable releases, as you might imagine. :-) >> >>How about just removing the directory for bittorent and any links to it for >>oldstable? If we cannot seed the images and they unlikely to get seeded >>much by others, should we really offer bittorent at all? >> >>Wouldn't it be better to just offer jigdo and the ISOs and be done with it? > >An alternative, that I've been thinking that we should include in the >torrents is: http://getright.com/seedtorrent.html > >But it requires some changes in how torrents are currently generated >(either switch of generating software or some python hacking).
/me really needs to get jigdoofus finished. Then we'd be able to offer full ISOs and bittorrents using just the jigdo files and the mirror (for at least older images). ENOTUITS. -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK. [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Every time you use Tcl, God kills a kitten." -- Malcolm Ray -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
