Bug 278660 – net-libs/libtorrent-0.12.5 net-p2p/rtorrent-0.8.5 version bump

• Product: Gentoo Linux
• Status: RESOLVED FIXED

[Description Shark 2009-07-22 10:17:33 UTC]

From the libtorrent-devel msg:

LibTorrent 0.12.5 and rTorrent 0.8.5 released:

* Add support for any number of custom download values identified by
string keys.
  d.set_custom=key,value
  d.get_custom=key (returns "" if not set)
  d.get_custom_throw=key (returns error if not set)

* With this patch, rtorrent will detect and complain about .torrent
files with broken bencode representation (e.g. where the order of
dictionary keys is not lexicographic).

* Choose a different poll type using the RTORRENT_POLL env. variable
(if it's implemented), probably only useful as RTORRENT_POLL=select.

* Add the commands execute_capture and execute_capture_nothrow that
work like their other counterparts but return the OUTPUT (stdout) of
the given command.

  Note that the output is not modified in any way, in particular a
trailing newline is NOT removed. To work around this, have the command
write its output without it e.g. using echo -n. Also note that with
execute_capture_nothrow there is no way to check if the command
failed.

  Example usage: d.set_custom4=$execute_capture=handler.sh

* Fixes the code that detects which peer was sending bad data. Peers
are then automatically banned after sending three bad chunks.

* Stops rtorrent from always creating and resizing ALL files, even
those set to "off". Files will still be created, but with a size of
zero, until a part of them is getting downloaded. This helps with
filesystems that don't support sparse files (such as FAT, HFS+, and
others).

* Fix inefficient piece distribution due to linear chunk request
strategy by randomizing position every few (on average 32) chunks, see
ticket #190.

* Enable custom throttles, both per-download or per-IP. See
http://libtorrent.rakshasa.no/ticket/20 for info and instructions.

* Fix crashes/errors due to rtorrent attempting to pass non-utf-8
strings to xmlrpc.

=== All patches above by Josef Drexler ===


* Added support for using posix_fallocate on newly resized files.

* Include locally available chunks in the "chunks seen" statistics for
completed/distributed copies. Patch by Josef Drexler.

* Added 'd.get_bitfield' command for retrieving the bitfield in hex
format. Patch by Thomas Rosner.

* Fixed include headers for gcc-4.4.0. Patch by 'kloeri'.
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I've renamed the ebuild, removed the headers's patch and added --with-posix-fallocat to econf. Works here on x86+glibc-2.10.1+XFS. 

Reproducible: Always

[Comment 1 Shark 2009-07-22 10:18:30 UTC]

Created attachment 198779 [details]
libtorrent ebuild

[Comment 2 Shark 2009-07-22 10:18:45 UTC]

Created attachment 198781 [details]
rtorrent ebuild

[Comment 3 Lars Wendler (Polynomial-C) (RETIRED) 2009-07-22 16:42:32 UTC]

Please attach unified diffs (diff -u) when you did changes to an ebuild. That would be much more handy for our devs.

[Comment 4 Shark 2009-07-22 21:00:39 UTC]

Created attachment 198836 [details, diff]
Libtorrent patch

[Comment 5 Shark 2009-07-22 21:01:22 UTC]

Created attachment 198839 [details, diff]
rtorrent patch

[Comment 6 Shark 2009-08-03 10:16:01 UTC]

I've downloaded a couple of big torrents with the 0.12.5 version compiled with --with-posix-fallocate and the fragmentation went from several hundreds of extents to one on an XFS partition. Please bump the version in portage 

[Comment 7 Patrick Lauer 2009-09-10 17:57:32 UTC]

Done, and done. Thanks for testing!