From steve at s.cotton.clara.co.uk Thu May 14 18:39:52 2015 From: steve at s.cotton.clara.co.uk (Steve Cotton) Date: Thu, 14 May 2015 20:39:52 +0200 Subject: tracker In-Reply-To: <1430044639.5897.21.camel@hp> References: <1430044639.5897.21.camel@hp> Message-ID: <20150514183952.GC27535@s.cotton.clara.co.uk> On Sun, Apr 26, 2015 at 11:37:19AM +0100, Octavio Martins wrote: > I'm trying debtorrent (want to see it working), but it rarely > connect to peers, in the tracker info page there is no > torrents, sometimes there is one or two, but it vanishes, it > seems that there is some (agressive) cleanup going on in the > peer lists Hi Octavio, Sorry, but the AFAIK the DebTorrent tracker has been down for a couple of years. I'm surprised that it is back up again, so maybe there is new development. OTOH, as you've seen the mailing list is also quiet. Debian's archive format has also changed slightly, IIRC the client would need updates to usefully cache files. This was the cause of bug #744228. The other thing is that Debian has a good mirror network. For a .deb-based project that didn't have the mirror network then I think debtorrent would be a useful mirror, but with the mirrors it's not really needed. > I think it is worth to take a look at it, while there is some > clients installed Simply installing the client doesn't update apt's sources.list to use the proxy. Although the clients do fall back to downloading directly without torrent, I think any client that's currently running probably isn't in the torrent. There's more detail in bugs #730459 and #744228. But if you compare those with the popcon graph, it looks like most installations didn't notice the tracker being down for a long time. Steve