On Tue, 9 Sep 2014 20:56:27 +0100
Graham P Davis
On Tue, 9 Sep 2014 14:11:21 -0400 Bill Merriam
wrote: On Tue, 9 Sep 2014 20:03:45 +0200 (CEST) Yamaban
wrote: On Tue, 9 Sep 2014 20:00, Bill Merriam
wrote: I have a slow internet connection and like to use torrents to download large files. Is it possible to provide torrents for Factory ISOs?
Bill
To specify: Do you mean the Factory-Snapshot-<DATE> ISO or something else? (Best, give a DL URL as example)
- Yamaban.
I was thinking of this URL http://download.opensuse.org/factory/iso/openSUSE-Factory-DVD-x86_64-Current... which I think is the same file as http://download.opensuse.org/factory/iso/openSUSE-Factory-DVD-x86_64-Snapsho...
Torrent files can supposedly use "webseeds". If I knew how to make a torrent file I think I could use all the opensuse mirrors as "webseeds", but I really don't know.
Click on appropriate "details" link on http://download.opensuse.org/factory/iso/ and it will take you to a page with metalinks, bittorrents, etc.
That page is indeed there. The metalinks work, the torrent fails with a 404 and the magnet link is provided but my torrent daemon never succeeds in downloading the metadata. My transmission daemon does a great job of getting the file, even if it takes days, resuming after a network failure or system restart and is easy to use. The tools I have for working with metalinks are interactive, have to be manually monitored, restarted, resumed or whatever and the process takes days of my attention. I could write a daemon for downloading metalinks but it seemed easier to ask the opensuse project to have mirrorbrain generate the torrent files. Bill -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-factory+owner@opensuse.org