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Created by Kogen Mantis@k0gen

Use bittorrent protocol for alpine linux iso's and img's distribution

Here is how I see it:

  1. New Alpine Linux is compiled on build machine.
  2. New ISO image is prepared with md5 hash file
  3. New torrent is generated for above files. (configured for linuxtracker or local tracker)
  4. Build machine starts seeding torrent and send newly made .torrent to list of mirror servers.
  5. Mirror servers are configured to watch for a new .torrent files in designated alpine dist torrent folder.
  6. When new .torrent is detected mirror server immediately start download and when finished became seedbox for this files.

(from redmine: issue id 325, created on 2010-03-16, closed on 2011-06-12)

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