On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 04:08:55 +0000, Rob OpenSuSE wrote:
2008/12/16 Peter Poeml <poeml@suse.de>:
Note that you can download .torrent files in the described way at any time, safely, quickly. Should you need it. But a torrent-capable Metalink client will even *use* the Torrent and download the whole thing you are after.
And even more, you don't need to download the torrent file at all.
You've mentioned aria2 and Firefox "Down them All" extension, but not Kget in KDE4. Was there a particular reason?
Alot of ppl will be all set to go with Kget, without installing anything.
I do hope ppl do mess with the torrent file after in order to seed the DVD torrents once, the 30 hrs are up.
I have not used it, I have seen long-standing bugs in bugzilla about it, and from what I heard its support for metalinks is there, albeit fairly minimal. It doen't have the features that make it real fun. And, it's only in KDE4. So please try it, use it, and let me know about the results! And if it works, yes, then we should definitely propagandize it as well. KGet should be able to work with metalinks that end in ".metalink". It might be useful to ping the KDE developers and ask them to support the transparent negotiation of metalinks, so they would automatically be used without people even needing to be aware of it! Cf. to http://groups.google.com/group/metalink-discussion/web/transparent-metalinks... Thanks, Peter -- "WARNING: This bug is visible to non-employees. Please be respectful!" SUSE LINUX Products GmbH Research & Development