Filesharing - Download central ?
  • Priest of the Order of the Butterfly
    Priest of the Order of the Butterfly
    Robin
    Posts: 741 from 2003/2/24
    I've no clue about torrent and other filesharing.
    But I was thinking if it would be possible to have
    a torrent that has many files and is "changing"
    it's content ?

    So that we can have one big "MorphUP-Torrent" which has
    all available MU-Packages?

    And if I understand correct you can download a single
    file from a multifile-torrent ....

    What do you think about such a "floating" aminet for MorphUP?
    Is it possible?
  • »30.03.06 - 17:37
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  • Cocoon
    Cocoon
    scf
    Posts: 54 from 2003/6/3
    From: Ukraine
    If you change torrent content - it is new torrent, so probably it's not a good idea to use it for such purpose.
  • »30.03.06 - 22:53
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  • MorphOS Developer
    CISC
    Posts: 619 from 2005/8/27
    From: the land with ...
    Well, it's not that bad of an idea probably .. you just have to add another new-fangled tech to the equation .. RSS...

    Simply put, you have an RSS-feed (or podcast or whatever you like to call it), that will keep you updated with the latest .torrent (that can contain all the packages), whenever contents change a new torrent is issued, the torrent itself can then be checked for which files changed, and only redownload the ones that did (that means you still seed the ones you already had) .. the more subscribers the more seeders, and the more efficient the whole thing would be. ;)

    ..another challenge for naTmeg? ;)


    - CISC
  • »05.04.06 - 18:44
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