Anthony Bryan a écrit :
I don't have the resources of BitTorrent Inc
the real problem, here is in my opinions to know if metalink is a real progress.
I mean a complete system, with bittorrent and eventually rsync addition (may be a simple batch to do that).
Metalinks can list bittorrent and rsync resources. aria2 and GetRight support the bittorrent protocol. no metalink clients currently support the rsync protocol, but (if the full file checksum does not match) I assume it could be possible for some clients to 1) add rsync support (librsync?) and automatically use it to repair the file 2) at least list the rsync servers contained in the metalink and tell users the command to repair the file. The second option wouldn't be as nice and automated, but seems pretty simple. (But I might be wrong).
and is it a real progress for Novell and openSUSE in the way of spreading they distribution.
I think most Novell and openSUSE people have been quiet about metalink, I would be interested to know their opinions. Unless they hated it :) There were 20,000 downloads of openSUSE 10.2 metalinks the first day of release, and about 60,000 total so far.
If it is not, let alone...
if it is openSUSE have the man power to get a client uptodate (aeria2 or any other)... it's as simple as that.
We all know that openSUSE (and probably others distributions as well) have mirror problems, so is this a solution? obviously not for 10.2, but for 10.3
may be Anthony didn't know sufficiently well advertise it's product. If this product is really usefull, he may appreciate any help, I'm sure...
Definitely, I would REALLY appreciate help. I will try to reply to everyone once I get some time, swamped at the moment. If anyone wants more info, there's this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metalink (( Anthony Bryan )) Metalink [ http://www.metalinker.org ] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-project+help@opensuse.org