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author | Patrick J Volkerding <volkerdi@slackware.com> | 2019-02-03 20:26:34 +0000 |
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committer | Eric Hameleers <alien@slackware.com> | 2019-02-04 08:59:48 +0100 |
commit | 27b0c3822f02e8d924af6264d205ad7182d438bf (patch) | |
tree | d5bc076a3830e28db3353a09cc062a2dce361b6c /extra/bittorrent/README | |
parent | 1d9c56ff697d9b03a4124fdd13750e4d5187e239 (diff) | |
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Sun Feb 3 20:26:34 UTC 201920190203202634
d/bison-3.3.2-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded.
n/dovecot-2.3.4-x86_64-2.txz: Rebuilt.
Patched double free when used with MariaDB 10.3.x. Thanks to Thom1b.
x/xkeyboard-config-2.26-noarch-1.txz: Upgraded.
extra/bittorrent/bittorrent-4.4.0-noarch-4.txz: Removed.
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diff --git a/extra/bittorrent/README b/extra/bittorrent/README deleted file mode 100644 index 551ba8660..000000000 --- a/extra/bittorrent/README +++ /dev/null @@ -1,31 +0,0 @@ - -Here's a BitTorrent package for Slackware. - -Note that we don't ship either wxGTK or wxPython, which are needed for the -bittorrent-console script. I built and installed these, and couldn't justify -the huge size (and assorted build problems) in order to enable an ugly little -dialog box. But feel free to grab those sources and knock yourself out! - -I've included a simple script and mailcap entry to allow using the curses -based downloader instead, which will work just the same as the GUI version -but with a lot less library overhead required. For Mozilla, Netscape, and -other browsers that read /etc/mailcap, once you've installed this package -BitTorrent should work right out of the box. If your browser doesn't use -/etc/mailcap, you can set it up to use /usr/bin/bittorrent-xterm as the -helper application for the MIME type application/x-bittorrent. - -If you're a command-line user, you may also consider using bittorrent-curses -manually. Here's how: - -1. Download the .torrent file into your download directory. - -2. At the command line, use the curses version of BitTorrent to download: - bittorrent-curses some-big-file.torrent - -This should start the download and bring up a status screen where you can -monitor the download (and upload) progress. - -Have fun! - -- P. - |