Hi Can it have multiple webseed locations?
fre. 6. nov. 2020 02.40 skrev Andrew Lutsenko <anlutse...@gmail.com>: > Hi Nick, > > Is there anything else I can help with here? > I see 5.1.8 update is released already. > > On Thu, Oct 1, 2020 at 3:48 AM Andrew Lutsenko <anlutse...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> Oh, I did verify that, sorry I wasn't clear. It definitely works. >> >> On Thu, Oct 1, 2020, 02:00 Nick Østergaard <oe.n...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> I was implicitly hoping you could explicitly verify for me that using >>> the OSDN url would support range requests. :) >>> >>> tor. 1. okt. 2020 09.09 skrev Andrew Lutsenko <anlutse...@gmail.com>: >>> >>>> Yes, it does. I think it will work with any http server supporting >>>> range requests. >>>> You can have multiple webseed urls in the torrent as well, just pass >>>> --urlList flag multiple times. >>>> >>>> On Wed, Sep 30, 2020 at 11:28 PM Nick Østergaard <oe.n...@gmail.com> >>>> wrote: >>>> >>>>> Does it also work with the OSDN mirror? >>>>> >>>>> tor. 1. okt. 2020 02.42 skrev Andrew Lutsenko <anlutse...@gmail.com>: >>>>> >>>>>> Hi all, >>>>>> >>>>>> I recall we had this discussion before about providing torrent files >>>>>> for release downloads to reduce the slowdown related to rush traffic. it >>>>>> didn't go far mainly because of resources needed to maintain separate >>>>>> torrent seeding infrastructure. >>>>>> >>>>>> I recently discovered that p2p torrent protocol supports webseeding, >>>>>> a feature that allows torrent clients to download chunks of files from >>>>>> standard http/ftp servers. It's implemented by most major torrent client >>>>>> software. This way the file is initially seeded by the http server but as >>>>>> more and more peers get the data the swarm takes over most of the traffic >>>>>> load. >>>>>> >>>>>> I tried it out and it works nicely with kicad's existing http >>>>>> download resources so there is no need to have separate infra for >>>>>> torrents! >>>>>> >>>>>> Would you be open to adding this? >>>>>> All that is needed is put .torrent files either on kicad website or >>>>>> even better, on the https://kicad-downloads.s3.cern.ch/ server next >>>>>> to the installers and add a link to them. >>>>>> >>>>>> I've generated torrents with webseed information for 5.1.7 here: >>>>>> https://forum.kicad.info/t/torrents-for-kicad-stable-version-5-1-7-win-and-osx/16609/14?u=qu1ck >>>>>> >>>>>> To do it yourself in the future is trivial, here is the bash script I >>>>>> used to create the files: >>>>>> >>>>>> for f in *.exe ; do >>>>>> create-torrent "$f" -o $f.torrent --urlList >>>>>> https://kicad-downloads.s3.cern.ch/windows/stable/ >>>>>> done >>>>>> for f in *.dmg ; do >>>>>> create-torrent "$f" -o $f.torrent --urlList >>>>>> https://kicad-downloads.s3.cern.ch/osx/stable/ >>>>>> done >>>>>> >>>>>> It depends on create-torrent utility that you can get by running "npm >>>>>> install -g create-torrent" >>>>>> >>>>>> I can also make a merge request on the kicad website if someone will >>>>>> upload the torrent files to the s3 server. >>>>>> >>>>>> Regards, >>>>>> Andrew >>>>>> _______________________________________________ >>>>>> Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers >>>>>> Post to : kicad-developers@lists.launchpad.net >>>>>> Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers >>>>>> More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp >>>>>> >>>>>
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