BitTyrant ebuild anyone?

thestick · Guru Joined: 07 Apr 2006 Posts: 531 Location: /dev/urandom

it is a modified azureus. could anyone make an ebuild for it?
here is the webpage http://bittyrant.cs.washington.edu/

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lenk · Apprentice Joined: 08 Mar 2004 Posts: 211

I've always just downloaded azureus and install in /opt. The portage ebuild has too many dependencies. Just download and unzip it to /opt and set correct permissions.
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Conan · Guru Joined: 02 Nov 2004 Posts: 360

Bittyrant is a horrible idea.

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rmh3093 · Posted: Fri Jan 05, 2007 5:00 am Post subject:

because if everyone starts using it then people with fast connections will get faster and people with slow connection will get slower until no one uses torrents
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Conan · Guru Joined: 02 Nov 2004 Posts: 360

it defeats the whole share-and-share-alike principal of bittorrent.

Then again the "ethical" uses of bittoreent are few and far between, so I don't know if condemming someone for bad manners really makes sense

micr0c0sm · Posted: Fri Jan 05, 2007 5:35 am Post subject:

People misunderstand bittyrant, try reading into a little bit.

bittyrant speeds up your downloads, BUT NOT at the expense of your uploading capacity.

It simply makes some smart decisions to make sure everyone is uploading as much as possible, and the HIGHEST ratio'd uploaders get the best download speeds.

thestick · Guru Joined: 07 Apr 2006 Posts: 531 Location: /dev/urandom

Pse · Posted: Sat Jan 06, 2007 7:33 am Post subject:

There's quite a bit of a discussion surrounding the whole BitTorrent vs. BitTyrant matter. Personally, I just thought BitTorrent actually DID what BitTyrant claims to do now. It never came to my mind BitTorrent clients were not assigning more bandwidth to faster seeders. In any case, I actually believe this is a good idea, as long as seeders remain on the network for a while, dowloads should go faster for everyone, as higher bandwidth seeders will be able to share faster to many others with lower bandwidth.

reiman · Posted: Mon Jan 08, 2007 12:41 am Post subject:

maybe worth a shot, how is it compared to rtorrent?

broken_chaos · Posted: Mon Jan 08, 2007 12:52 am Post subject:

reiman · Posted: Mon Jan 08, 2007 1:13 am Post subject:

XAvAX · n00b Joined: 31 Dec 2004 Posts: 24

I have one that I made by editing the most recent azureus ebuild. Just replace the SRC_URI with the URI on the UW page for the 32-bit one, change the date there to ${PV}, and rename the ebuild to bittyrant-date_of_package_here.ebuild. It digests okay, I'm emerging it now.

EDIT: I forgot to say why I didn't just upload one: I only have lynx right now. I have X, but no GUI browser.

EDIT2: I have firefox-bin now, but the ebuild was a bust. The jar's it made were broken.
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