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pkgtorrent-service(8) System Manager's Manual pkgtorrent-service(8)
pkgtorrent-service(8) Is a python WSGI web application that can gen‐
erate BitTorrent files for binary files available from the web
server.
The program should installed on a site local yum mirror and must be
configured before use. See pkgtorrent-service.conf(5) for more
information.
The primary use case for this service is implemented in
yum-torrent(1).
There is a secondary interface to assist with simple file downloads
involving a single path.
$ curl http://example.com/path/to/large/file > file
can be converted to using BitTorrent with:
$ curl http://example.com/path/torrent_service/single/path/to/large/file > file.torrent
$ btclient file.torrent
Note the repetition of path before the service name, and the addition
of torrent_service/single to pass control to the single path mode.
Simple file mode supports simple globbing, so you can specify
.../directory/*.foo. If the path resolves to only one file, the
multi-file support in the .torrent file is skipped, making the
downloaded file easier to handle.
/var/lib/torrent_service/trackers
The service needs to include one or more BitTorrent tracker
servers. The format is one "announce" URL per line. Example:
http://example.com:6969/announce This text file is scanned
each minute for updates.
The service makes extensive use of cache files. The files are
relatively small. It is recommended you periodically clean these
caches for files not used in the past month or so.
/var/cache/torrent_service/info/input_digest
This directory caches info_hashes for the previously requested
path digests. These are used with the current list of
trackers to generate .torrent files in constant time.
/var/cache/torrent_service/pieces/path/to/file/blocksize
Every file within a torrent is represented by a list of SHA1
digests, one for each blocksize of the file. The SHA1 list is
expensive to generate. The same binaries may be downloaded in
different permutations by different clients. The cache is
invalidated if the original file has a different mtime or is a
different size.
Single file mode should be called simple.
Matthew Almond <malmond@fb.com>
pkgtorrent-service.conf(5)
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09 MARCH 2016 pkgtorrent-service(8)
Pages that refer to this page: yum-torrent(1) , pkgtorrent-service.conf(5) , yum-torrent.conf(5) , pkgtorrent-service(8)