Bug 178111

Summary:	No available method for helping-out with distributing Gentoo torrent files?
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Roger <rogerx.oss>
Component:	Current packages	Assignee:	Gentoo Linux bug wranglers <bug-wranglers>
Status:	RESOLVED INVALID
Severity:	normal
Priority:	High
Version:	2006.1
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Roger 2007-05-11 21:51:19 UTC

No available method for helping-out with distributing Gentoo torrent files using a command line server?

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Setup_A_Bittorrent_Tracker is outdated.  Files specified no longer exist
2.No real easy method of testing the server
3.Only buggy gui based torrent leachers are available for this task.

Actual Results:  
Buggy best.  Seems to be little documentation either.

Expected Results:  
I would have liked an easy way for helping re-distribute Gentoo torrent files (ie. LiveCD media, LiveDVD media, Minimal Install media, ...

I already have an apache server setup, so I figured it would be easy creating another server & opening some ports.  To my dismay, the wiki is out-dated and the command line server within net-p2p/bittorrent is buggy including an out-dated /etc/conf.d file. :-/

So if we want to help by donating bandwidth, are we strapped into running a gui interface for the server part?

Of course, it might be more secure running the torrent server as a gui with user only permissions.

Comment 1 Peter Weller (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2007-05-11 22:01:24 UTC

The Gentoo-wiki is not official Gentoo Documentation. If you want it updated, you can update it yourself.

As for point 3), try out ctorrent, rtorrent or any of the other text/curses based torrent clients. Just open up the correct ports on your router. Look at the bittorrent FAQ here: http://dessent.net/btfaq/

Comment 2 Roger 2007-05-11 22:34:39 UTC

Not looking for *any* frontend.  Just want to run a torrent server for redistributing /var/www/torrents since my server here sits on all day doing nothing.

ie.
/var/www/torrents/install-x86-minimal-2007.0-r1
/var/www/torrents/livecd-i686-installer-2007.0
/var/www/torrents/livedvd-i686-installer-2007.0

Looking over the http://dessent.net/btfaq/#maketorrent gives quite a bit of good info.  But yet, it still doesn't explain how to do the above easily with running a server on Gentoo.  (Nor am I interested in distributing any other personal files.)

Guess it's not worth while for a user to set up a torrent mirror for redistributing official Gentoo release files. 

Dunno.  I give up.  Would have rather posted to a forum, but considered this more of a sales/redistributing aspect of Gentoo.