https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=410779
Bug ID: 410779
Summary: Slow or unreliable downloads of KDE Neon release
images and lack of adoption of Metalink
Product: neon
Version: unspecified
Platform: Other
OS: All
Status: REPORTED
Severity: normal
Priority: NOR
Component: general
Assignee: neon-b...@kde.org
Reporter: kristopher.i...@gmail.com
CC: j...@jriddell.org, neon-b...@kde.org, sit...@kde.org
Target Milestone: ---
SUMMARY
Sometimes downloading the latest KDE Neon release image (ISO) can be slow as
well as unreliable. Download speeds can range in 200KB/s range and sometimes
after waiting for 30 minutes the download simply fails, even when the
client-side has a network connection that can easily handle 15MB/s.
STEPS TO REPRODUCE
1. Go to neon.kde.org
2. Download an ISO image
OBSERVED RESULT
Download is slow and sometimes fails. Since most users download via web
browsers the failed downloads often cannot be resumed without additional
workarounds.
EXPECTED RESULT
A 1.4GB download shouldn't take that long and shouldn't be a bottleneck to
setting up KDE Neon for the first time.
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
The current proposed solution on neon.kde.org is to use Metalink files as one
is generated for every file that is mirrored. However, Metalink isn't well
adopted so most users don't know how to use the files and the software
availability for some platforms may be scarce.
The metalink files themselves do contain enough information in them to generate
.torrent files that don't require any additional infrastructure. This means
users can use their BitTorrent clients to download KDE Neon and the files will
get pulled from the mirror servers via HTTP while also allowing any peers to
seed to each other potentially reducing the bandwidth footprint on the mirrors.
I created a Python tool that converts .meta4 files into .torrent files with web
seeds that shows how this can be done. An example of this is also hosted at
https://metalink.xyz to show it works.
Please let me know what roadblocks exist in getting this functionality on
neon.kde.org for downloads.
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