Fedora bittorrent tracker?

[Seth Vidal]

On Mon, 1 Jun 2009, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:

> On Mon, Jun 01, 2009 at 12:30:44PM -0400, Seth Vidal wrote:
>> On Mon, 1 Jun 2009, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
>>> On Mon, Jun 01, 2009 at 12:07:45PM -0400, Seth Vidal wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>> The biggest problem is gonna be uploading it over my *$!* ADSL
>>> connection.
>>>
>>> I wasn't looking for hosting, just for somewhere to store the tracker.
>>> It's my understanding (possibly incorrect) that the initial seed and
>>> the tracker are separate things which don't need to be kept at the
>>> same location.
>>>
>>
>> They don't and if you want us to serve as the tracker but NOT as primary
>> seed then I think that can be worked out, too.
>>
>> Essentially you'd make a .torrent file with our tracker info in it - send
>> us the .torrent file. We'll drop it in the holding path for the tracker
>> and, ultimately, for our seed.
>>
>> so we'd start downloading it, too.
>>
>> or, alternatively, I could see about  setting up a tracker-only non-seed
>> path for our current tracker so that we could just track but not seed.
>>
>> Provided your seed would be doing all the bit-pushing work :)
>
> Yes.
>
> Thanks.  I'm going to do a bit more research on making a torrent file.
>

  /usr/bin/maketorrent-console \
      http://torrent.fedoraproject.org:6969/announce 
file_or_dir_to_torrent

-sv