Torrent changes

[Nigel Jones]

----- "Mike McGrath" <mmcgrath at redhat.com> wrote:

> On Thu, 10 Sep 2009, Jesse Keating wrote:
> 
> > I've done a couple things with the torrents this week and I want you
> all
> > to be aware of it, in case something happens.
> >
> > 1) I've removed anything that is older than F-10.  All F8/9 content
> has
> > been removed from the web listing, and if nobody complains in a week
> or
> > so I'll remove the torrent files themselves.
> >
> > 2) I've re-generated all the live torrents, all the Fedora 12 Alpha
> > torrents, and the Snapshot 1 torrents.  These have been
> re-generated
> > with a README-SOURCES file that tells users where they can go to get
> the
> > matching sources.  This has reset the download counters for all of
> the
> > torrents that got re-generated, but was necessary for GPL
> compliance.
> >
> > Please ping me if anybody discovers an issue with the torrents.
> >
> 
> Do we not need to have the same, regenerated isos on the mirrors?
My understanding is that it's just the torrent 'manifest' (i.e. the filelist in the .torrent files).

I think we have a similar README-SOURCES on the mirrors somewhere.

- Nigel