Re: [OS:N:] collaborating to setup BitTorrent

[Todd Warner <taw redhat com>]

On Wed, 31 Mar 2004, Robert Citek wrote:

> 
> On Wednesday, March 31, 2004, at 09:04  AM, Chris Spencer wrote:
> > Like Todd I haven't had a need...I think you should start by typing:
> > man btmakemetafile
> >
> > That seems to be the appropriate thing.
> 
> I've tried 'man bt...' for all the bt* commands.  Unfortunately, they 
> are not very helpful.  'man {anything}' tends to be great once you know 
> what you are doing and need a reference, but not so great as an 
> introduction or tutorial.
> 
> In summary: on Libranet, to install both client and server (tracker) 
> software:
> 
>    apt-get install bittorrent -t unstable
> 
> Read the docs:
> 
>    zcat /usr/share/doc/bittorrent/README.txt.gz | less
> 
> I also subscribed to the Yahoo!Groups lists for BitTorrent:
> 
>    http://groups.yahoo.com/group/BitTorrent/
>    http://groups.yahoo.com/group/BitTorrent_help/
> 
> So far, I've gotten a tracker running and a .torrent file made.  I now 
> just need to figure out how to modify my apache settings, "join" the 
> web server with the tracker, and modify my NAT/FW to allow connections 
> through.  Where I'm stuck is that I'm not clear on how the tracker 
> knows where the ISO is.
> 
> That'll be tonight's project.  Again, if anyone wants to pair-up to 
> stumble through this together, I'm game.
> 
> Regards,
> - Robert

http://dag.wieers.com/packages/bittorrent/

If you want you can plug up2date into his apt repo's:
http://dag.wieers.com/home-made/apt/

Or just use apt-get on Fedora/RHEL... just be really really careful with
what you download.

Dunno how good his RPMs are.


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