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[Nick Østergaard <oe.nick@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi

Can it have multiple webseed locations?

fre. 6. nov. 2020 02.40 skrev Andrew Lutsenko <anlutsenko@xxxxxxxxx>:

> Hi Nick,
>
> Is there anything else I can help with here?
> I see 5.1.8 update is released already.
>
> On Thu, Oct 1, 2020 at 3:48 AM Andrew Lutsenko <anlutsenko@xxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
>
>> Oh, I did verify that, sorry I wasn't clear. It definitely works.
>>
>> On Thu, Oct 1, 2020, 02:00 Nick Østergaard <oe.nick@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>>> I was implicitly hoping you could explicitly verify for me that using
>>> the OSDN url would support range requests.  :)
>>>
>>> tor. 1. okt. 2020 09.09 skrev Andrew Lutsenko <anlutsenko@xxxxxxxxx>:
>>>
>>>> Yes, it does. I think it will work with any http server supporting
>>>> range requests.
>>>> You can have multiple webseed urls in the torrent as well, just pass
>>>> --urlList flag multiple times.
>>>>
>>>> On Wed, Sep 30, 2020 at 11:28 PM Nick Østergaard <oe.nick@xxxxxxxxx>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Does it also work with the OSDN mirror?
>>>>>
>>>>> tor. 1. okt. 2020 02.42 skrev Andrew Lutsenko <anlutsenko@xxxxxxxxx>:
>>>>>
>>>>>> Hi all,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I recall we had this discussion before about providing torrent files
>>>>>> for release downloads to reduce the slowdown related to rush traffic. it
>>>>>> didn't go far mainly because of resources needed to maintain separate
>>>>>> torrent seeding infrastructure.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I recently discovered that p2p torrent protocol supports webseeding,
>>>>>> a feature that allows torrent clients to download chunks of files from
>>>>>> standard http/ftp servers. It's implemented by most major torrent client
>>>>>> software. This way the file is initially seeded by the http server but as
>>>>>> more and more peers get the data the swarm takes over most of the traffic
>>>>>> load.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I tried it out and it works nicely with kicad's existing http
>>>>>> download resources so there is no need to have separate infra for torrents!
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Would you be open to adding this?
>>>>>> All that is needed is put .torrent files either on kicad website or
>>>>>> even better, on the https://kicad-downloads.s3.cern.ch/ server next
>>>>>> to the installers and add a link to them.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I've generated torrents with webseed information for 5.1.7 here:
>>>>>> https://forum.kicad.info/t/torrents-for-kicad-stable-version-5-1-7-win-and-osx/16609/14?u=qu1ck
>>>>>>
>>>>>> To do it yourself in the future is trivial, here is the bash script I
>>>>>> used to create the files:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> for f in *.exe ; do
>>>>>> create-torrent "$f" -o $f.torrent --urlList
>>>>>> https://kicad-downloads.s3.cern.ch/windows/stable/
>>>>>> done
>>>>>> for f in *.dmg ; do
>>>>>> create-torrent "$f" -o $f.torrent --urlList
>>>>>> https://kicad-downloads.s3.cern.ch/osx/stable/
>>>>>> done
>>>>>>
>>>>>> It depends on create-torrent utility that you can get by running "npm
>>>>>> install -g create-torrent"
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I can also make a merge request on the kicad website if someone will
>>>>>> upload the torrent files to the s3 server.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Regards,
>>>>>> Andrew
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