9.1-RELEASE announcement and BitTorrent?

[René Ladan]

On 01-01-2013 11:07, Simon L. B. Nielsen wrote:
> On 31 December 2012 01:31, Alan Amesbury <amesbury at oitsec.umn.edu> wrote:
>> The FreeBSD 9.1-RELEASE announcement located at
>>
>>     http://www.freebsd.org/releases/9.1R/announce.html
>>
>> says, "[t]he required files can be downloaded via FTP or BitTorrent as
>> described in the sections below..." but makes no further mention of
>> BitTorrent.  I see torrents.freebsd.org still has a 503 error up with a note
>> saying it probably won't be back.  Is the plan to host FreeBSD's releases
>> via one of the well known public trackers (e.g., publicbt.com) or to
>> completely abandon that method of distribution?  Either way, the
>> announcement probably should be changed, i.e., either list the BitTorrent
>> methods available or remove all mention of BitTorrent.
> 
> Yes, it was a copy/paste error from previous annouments and should
> probably be removed from the online copy. re@ CC'ed for that.
> 
[ re@ dropped again ]

> There isn't really a plan yet AFAIK. The old setup just wasn't
> sustainable so it had to be taken down. Some people have looked at
> trackerless setups but AFAIK not yet in detail on setting something
> up.
> 
There is some unofficial volunteer effort to provide BitTorrent
downloads for FreeBSD 9.1 at http://www.gotbsd.net/

René