BitTorrent & Gentoo

blong · n00b Joined: 25 Jun 2003 Posts: 9 Location: Ebensburg, PA

Has anyone considered developing a tool for Gentoo Linux that uses a BitTorrent-like approach to the "emerge" tool? All users of Gentoo (many of us) could optionally run a service that shares their locally stored (previously downloaded) sources. Then we wouldn't be taxing external servers so much. This would especially be useful as Gentoo increases in userbase.

Just a suggestion I had to get off my mind...

djf_jeff · Apprentice Joined: 17 Feb 2003 Posts: 174 Location: Quebec

I think this is a good idea from the base but I dont think it will work well...

Maybe for OpenOffice and others big program like that but the majority of program is less than 4-5 meg. And Bittorrent dont perform well for small file like this.

Anyway, if this project come from light, I will run Bittorent for sharing my file to help Gentoo!

puggy · Posted: Wed Jul 09, 2003 12:35 pm Post subject:

https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=58225&highlight=emerge+bittorrent+gentoo
https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=57947&highlight=emerge+bittorrent+gentoo
https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=33370&highlight=emerge+bittorrent+gentoo

There are these thread and a few others around and about on this topic.

Puggy
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Brandy · Posted: Wed Jul 09, 2003 1:02 pm Post subject:

Thanks puggy. Moved from Gentoo Forums Feedback to Duplicate Threads.
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