Bug 186025

Summary:	net-p2p/createtorrent - man page missing / port included when not necessary
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	sECuRE <sECuRE>
Component:	Current packages	Assignee:	Gentoo Linux bug wranglers <bug-wranglers>
Status:	RESOLVED UPSTREAM
Severity:	minor
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description sECuRE 2007-07-20 20:40:38 UTC

The package net-p2p/createtorrent has no manpage (fortunately, at least createtorrent -h works).

Also, when creating a torrentfile via:
createtorrent -a http://vip.tracker.thepiratebay.org file.tar.bz2 file.torrent                                                                 
It cannot be uploaded to thepiratebay because thepiratebay thinks its tracker URL wouldn't be in the file. If you have a look into the file, you'll notice that port 6881 has been specified:
http://vip.tracker.thepiratebay.org:6881/announce
But the correct URL (because 6881 is, as -h even says, the standard port, so there's no need to include it, it's even contra-productive as you see) would be:
http://vip.tracker.thepiratebay.org/announce
So, you have to edit the resulting .torrent-file to get it uploaded to thepiratebay. I could image that this can happen on other trackers aswell.

Comment 1 Jakub Moc (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2007-07-20 20:43:41 UTC

Sorry, the only patch we apply here is to make this compile w/ --as-needed; you'll need to take this upstream.

http://www.createtorrent.com/

Comment 2 sECuRE 2007-07-20 20:48:33 UTC

(In reply to comment #1)
> Sorry, the only patch we apply here is to make this compile w/ --as-needed;
> you'll need to take this upstream.
> 
> http://www.createtorrent.com/
OK, will do, thanks.