On Tue, 2005-02-08 at 13:29 +0000, Joel Merrick wrote: > On Tue, 2005-02-08 at 14:07 +0100, Botykai Zsolt wrote: > > but it would be cool for some packages, especially for metapackages, > > like kde, > > gnome, and large stuff like kernel sources and openoffice... > > or some new make.conf options and daily generation of portage category > > distfiles torrents... > > I mean: > > 20050208-rox-base.torrent shouldda contain all the packages of the > > rox-base > > category... > > > I don't think it would be personally... You firstly have the issue of > keeping the torrents up to date with the latest rsync, plus there could > be the possibility of hijacking the torrent... > > I suppose you could provide GPGs for the package but it *may* be easy to > circumnavigate.
It also seems to me that there would be a hell of a lot of bittorrent's needing to be seeded and tracked. have you counted how many files there are in a gentoo mirror? and how do you get the .bittorrent files? are they sync'd with portage? do you know how much overhead that would add to the portage tree? besides, as far as i can see bittorrent is a tool for taking load off download (ftp/http) servers, and there are plenty of gentoo mirrors on big pipes. > -- Nick Rout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- [email protected] mailing list
