The following needs to be updated on torrents.gentoo.org from poseidon. poseidon torrents # ls -CF livecd-amd64-installer-2006.1.iso livecd-amd64-installer-2006.1.iso.CONTENTS livecd-amd64-installer-2006.1.iso.DIGESTS livecd-amd64-installer-2006.1.iso.asc livecd-i686-installer-2006.1.iso livecd-i686-installer-2006.1.iso.CONTENTS livecd-i686-installer-2006.1.iso.DIGESTS livecd-i686-installer-2006.1.iso.asc livedvd-amd64-installer-2006.1.iso livedvd-amd64-installer-2006.1.iso.DIGESTS livedvd-i686-installer-2006.1.iso livedvd-i686-installer-2006.1.iso.DIGESTS stage1-x86-2006.1.tar.bz2 stage1-x86-2006.1.tar.bz2.DIGESTS stage1-x86-2006.1.tar.bz2.asc poseidon torrents # pwd /release/torrents If anyone that doesn't already have access to poseidon is planning on doing this, I'll need to get them access.
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Okay, I'm sort of stuck. I need to create a .torrent for all of these files and then up that (via the admin interface to sparrow). The stage1-x86 has already been updated that way, and works a-okay. I used azureus on my comp to generate the .torrent (which seems to work fine). When I use a command line tool like createtorrent, it seems to give a messed up torrent, so I can't download (livecd-amd64 f.ex). Anyone know of a nice command-line tool that works for creating torrent files? I can't download 3.5 Gigs (mostly because of slow download speed) to my comp and then use azureus to create the torrents and re-up. Ideas?
Apologies for the long command, but you should probably make a script of this... 'emerge bittorrent' to get the tools. f=livecd-amd64-installer-2006.1 tracker_name='Pretty name for tracker' tracker_url="http://torrents.gentoo.org/tracker.php/announce" torrent_title='Title of torrent' torrent_comment='Long description of torrent, we add the ls -l output below' mkdir $f && \ mv ${f}.iso* ${f} && \ torrent_comment="${torrent_comment}\n$(ls -l $f)" && \ maketorrent-console --target "${f}.torrent" --tracker_name "$tracker_name" --comment "$torrent_comment" --title "$torrent_title" "${tracker_url}" ${f} Then use 'torrentinfo-console ${f}.torrent' to verify the file.
Notice that the torrent creater only takes a two non-option inputs. The first one is the tracker, and the second one is a file OR a directory. If you want multiple files inside a torrent, it must be a directory.
Oh, and there is one downside to the maketorrent-console app: it does not allow specifying an order set trackers (announce-list in bittorrent parlance). It limits you to specifying only one tracker - while not a problem for the older stuff, it will need fixing later.
fox2mike: do you need more information from me, or can you complete this now?
I think with 2007.0 out we can just close this one, now. What do you think?
Yup closing now. Plus i'll ensure that releng/infra have my scripts for next time.
