Bug 221251

Summary:	Use bittorrent for fetching distfiles
Product:	Portage Development	Reporter:	James Sharpe <james.sharpe>
Component:	Enhancement/Feature Requests	Assignee:	Portage team <dev-portage>
Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE
Severity:	enhancement
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	All
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description James Sharpe 2008-05-10 18:01:39 UTC

I was thinking that it would be nice to support torrents as a method for retrieving distfiles. This would reduce the bandwidth requirements on the distfiles servers as every gentoo user could then potentially become part of the swarm. Of course the existing servers would still support the current wget method(And would be required until bittorrent gets emerged), where possible these servers could be torrent servers too.

Reproducible: Always

Comment 1 Andrew Gaffney (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2008-05-10 18:05:44 UTC


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 78407 ***