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Dear community.
I have recently be looking more and more into bittorrent. I do believe that sharing resources now a days for the benefit of the whole community is a good thing. I was wondering if the Fink community was interested in a bittorrent distfiles, as well as general file mirror. I did try to install http://www.crackerjack.net/mod_bt/ o a FreeBSD box I have full control over, but it failed for various reasons. So if someone out there has a spare Linux box around they want to install this on, I would be more than happy.
The idea is a very basic one. Right now our distfiles mirrors serve HTTP, which is fine, they all decided to do this for us, none the less it is eating a whole lot of bandwidth and sometimes they might fail. Some sources aren't as wide spread on the Internet anymore as one might think, so ans an _unofficial_ service I was thinking about adding a Fink torrent tracker for Fink related files and source files you need to install packages with fink (the command line tool fink).
If you feel that this is a feasible Idea, please let me know I will gladly advance this idea. I wish I could offer a working system already, but as I said, mod_bt failed me miserably and I am not bittorrent expert. If someone can recommend an adequate replacement _including_ a system that announces the newly added torrents automatically, then I would be more than grateful to hear about it.
Thank you kindly.
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