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Re: using torrents for packages?

From: Greg Thomas (get.listsgmail.com)
Date: Mon May 01 2006 - 19:48:02 CDT

On 5/1/06, Samurai Chef <samuraichefgmail.com> wrote:
> 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.
>

So he can't do FTP. He can't buy the CDs. He can't do the torrents
from http://openbsd.somedomain.net/. I guess he's screwed then and
we'll no longer be hearing from him!

Greg