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Re: using torrents for packages?

From: Samurai Chef (samuraichefgmail.com)
Date: Mon May 01 2006 - 19:43:38 CDT

On 5/1/06, Greg Thomas <get.listsgmail.com> wrote:
> On 5/1/06, Darrin Chandler <dwchandlerstilyagin.com> wrote:
> > On Mon, May 01, 2006 at 10:42:32PM +0000, Christian Weisgerber wrote:
> > > Darrin Chandler <dwchandlerstilyagin.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > > If people are so hot for torrents, then why hasn't someone made one?
> > >
> > > But Andrew Fresh has.
> > > http://openbsd.somedomain.net/
> >
> > Oh, yeah. Right you are. Then why are we having this discussion? You
> > only need one tracker. Everyone remember to be good netizens and leave
> > your client active to keep it seeded!
> >
>
> We're here because Sebastian appears to want the OpenBSD team to
> provide an official tracker for official package distribution. Or
> maybe he didn't see that Andrew Fresh is working on packages for 3.9.
> Or maybe he just likes to whine about slow FTP and slow compression
> utilities.
>
> Greg
>
>

Or maybe he can't scrape up $50 for the CDs.