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23.12.2012 22:49, Robin H. Johnson пишет: |
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> torrents.gentoo.org has been down for a few months now, and there have |
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> been very few comments about it. Up until a few years ago, it was still |
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> quite useful, but I believe that we have sufficient bandwidth and |
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> mirror-coverage around the world that it's become a moot point. |
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> (snip) |
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> If we need torrents in future, we should use public trackers, as there |
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> is no further need to run our own BitTorrent tracker. The .torrent |
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> files themselves should live on our own mirrors, with GPG signatures to |
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> prove authenticity (we actually only need to sign the infohash value). |
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Personally i have agreed with this point of view. Our own torrent |
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service is unneeded anymore - we do not lose anything important if we |
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use public trackers for this |
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Best regards, Sergey Popov |
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Gentoo Linux Developer |
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Desktop-effects project lead |
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