23.12.2012 22:49, Robin H. Johnson пишет: > torrents.gentoo.org has been down for a few months now, and there have > been very few comments about it. Up until a few years ago, it was still > quite useful, but I believe that we have sufficient bandwidth and > mirror-coverage around the world that it's become a moot point. > > (snip) > > If we need torrents in future, we should use public trackers, as there > is no further need to run our own BitTorrent tracker. The .torrent > files themselves should live on our own mirrors, with GPG signatures to > prove authenticity (we actually only need to sign the infohash value).
Personally i have agreed with this point of view. Our own torrent service is unneeded anymore - we do not lose anything important if we use public trackers for this -- Best regards, Sergey Popov Gentoo Linux Developer Desktop-effects project lead
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