Hi, I've put up a metalink for DragonFly BSD at http://www.metalinker.org/samples/dfly-1.6.0_REL.iso.gz.metalink
Metalinks are useful for large files like ISOs and contain mirror and p2p locations along with checksums and other metadata. It's an XML file and here's a good description: 'Metalink makes complex download pages obsolete by replacing long lists of download mirrors and BitTorrent trackers with a single .metalink file. As you might have already guessed, a .metalink file is a file that tells a download manager all the different ways it can download a file. The file itself takes the form of an open XML standard that can list an unlimited number of HTTP and FTP sources as well as BitTorrent trackers and ed2k and magnet links.' (http://www.downloadsquad.com/2006/08/28/metalinks-integrated-bittorrent-htt p-and-ftp-downloads/) Right now, Metalinks are used by OpenOffice.org, many Linux/BSD distributions, and soon kernel.org. Hopefully they could be useful to you too. FreeBSD might use it for ports (http://wiki.freebsd.org/Metalink). Here are some other examples: http://distribution.openoffice.org/p2p/magnet.html http://en.opensuse.org/Released_Version#Metalink http://desktopbsd.net/index.php?id=73 http://www.pcbsd.org/?p=download http://www.archlinux.org/download/ Metalinks are supported by a number of download managers on Unix, Mac, and Win. There are 2 for unix, a command line version (http://aria2.sourceforge.net/) and one with a GUI. If you have any questions, please contact me. (( Anthony Bryan )) Metalink [ http://www.metalinker.org ]
