Feature #325
Use bittorrent protocol for alpine linux iso's and img's distribution
| Status: | Rejected | Start date: | 03/16/2010 | |
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| Priority: | Normal | Due date: | ||
| Assignee: | - | % Done: | 100% |
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| Category: | Download mirrors | Spent time: | - | |
| Target version: | - |
Description
Here is how I see it:
1. New Alpine Linux is compiled on build machine.
2. New ISO image is prepared with md5 hash file
3. New torrent is generated for above files. (configured for linuxtracker or local tracker)
4. Build machine starts seeding torrent and send newly made .torrent to list of mirror servers.
5. Mirror servers are configured to watch for a new .torrent files in designated alpine dist torrent folder.
6. When new .torrent is detected mirror server immediately start download and when finished became seedbox for this files.
History
Updated by Jeff Bilyk over 1 year ago
Looks like Alpine has already been added to linuxtorrents at least once
http://linuxtracker.org/index.php?page=torrent-details&id=66e148a2dbe0372fa151c22ea2a073edc8b33491. I think it would be a good idea to also distribute Alpine via torrent since most known distros have an option for downloading via torrent nowadays.
Updated by Carlo Landmeter 8 months ago
Is there an extra value for having downloads as torrents? Or is it just to remove load from our mirrors?
If its only load then maybe its not worth the time now to implement it, because I have not received any complained about too much load of any mirror.
Updated by Jeff Bilyk 8 months ago
- Status changed from New to Rejected
- % Done changed from 0 to 100
Agreed, i don't think we're at the point where we need this. I'm going to close the ticket for now. If we do end up wanting/needing torrent distribution, we can re-open the issue.