Torrent changes

Jesse Keating jkeating at j2solutions.net
Fri Sep 11 01:21:11 UTC 2009



On Sep 10, 2009, at 18:14, 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?
>

The iso itself is not changed. The torrents just have a file added to  
them.

On the mirror, the location o the source is pretty self evident but  
the case wasn't the same on the torrents, particularly for the  
snapshots and alpha.

--
Jes




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