BitTorrent Experimental Client.

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mushroom blue · Post by **mushroom blue** » Thu Jun 12, 2003 7:08 pm

wow. I actually found a reason to post to the forums. usually my questions are answered by a simple search of the forums or bugzilla. unfortunately, I must be the only gentoo user to have ever heard of the Experimental BitTorrent Client, or perhaps I'm being megalomaniacal. I tried installing it, without any luck at all. I figured "hey, perhaps I could kludge an ebuild together to make it install", but I make ebuilds about as well as I speak swahili, so that was a no-go.

could someone take a look at the source distribution and tell me what I have to do to make this work? or possibly whip up an ebuild, where at that point I would owe you a (insert beverage of choice)? this most certainly would be something that breakmygentoo should be looking at, as it has MUCH more functionality than the traditional BT client, and it's nowhere near official.

I'd post what my ebuild did, but really all I did was copy the 3.2.1b-r2 ebuild and change minor stuff.

so, um, help?

Headhunter123 · Post by **Headhunter123** » Fri Jun 13, 2003 1:28 pm

Isn't the experimental client for windows only ?

relyt · Post by **relyt** » Fri Jun 13, 2003 4:51 pm

You could use something like this:

${PORTDIR_OVERLAY}/net-p2p/bittorrent-experimental/bittorrent-experimental-3.2.1b.ebuild

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# Copyright 1999-2003 Gentoo Technologies, Inc.
# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
# $Header: $

inherit distutils

MY_P="${P/bittorrent/BitTorrent}-2"
S=${WORKDIR}/${MY_P}
DESCRIPTION="BitTorrent is a tool for distributing files via a distributed network of nodes"
SRC_URI="http://ei.kefro.st/projects/btclient/${MY_P}.tar.gz"
HOMEPAGE=http://ei.kefro.st/projects/btclient/""
SLOT="0"
LICENSE="MIT"
KEYWORDS="~x86 ~ppc ~alpha ~sparc"
IUSE=""

RDEPEND=">=dev-python/wxPython-2.2
        >=dev-lang/python-2.1"
DEPEND=${RDEPEND}

mydoc="FAQ.txt README.txt LICENSE.txt"

Note: I did not test this even once. This will overwrite a previous installation of BitTorrent.

Edit: Okay, cool. It works great!

mushroom blue · Post by **mushroom blue** » Sat Jun 14, 2003 7:05 am

relyt wrote:You could use something like this:

Edit: Okay, cool. It works great!

I have gotten it working. I just had to extract the Bittorrent directory into /usr/bin also, along with the .py files in the root dir of the package.

however, I see your ebuild works too. I'd rather use that.

name the beverage, I'll send.

mushroom blue · Post by **mushroom blue** » Sat Jun 14, 2003 7:07 am

Headhunter123 wrote:Isn't the experimental client for windows only ?

well, being it's all python and wxwindows, both of which are cross-platform, nope.

plus, it's about a million times better than the original client. the "choose your connection speed" is giving me the ability to actually surf while downloading... a big plus in my book.

Headhunter123 · Post by **Headhunter123** » Sat Jun 14, 2003 7:48 am

Cool, that's great news ! A pity it won't run in the console

Ivion · Post by **Ivion** » Sat Jun 14, 2003 4:23 pm

Headhunter123 wrote:Cool, that's great news ! A pity it won't run in the console

I think 'btdownloadcurses.py' might be you answer.

Headhunter123 · Post by **Headhunter123** » Sat Jun 14, 2003 9:23 pm

Yeah, thx, it acutally replaces the original (crappy) bt client !

Thx for this tip, i love the experimental client

azote · Post by **azote** » Sun Jun 15, 2003 3:15 am

nice..

karl11 · Post by **karl11** » Wed Jun 18, 2003 7:23 pm

Nice little client...just noticed it today...I'll go ahead and put this on breakmygentoo.net, but in the future, please post to:

http://bugs.breakmygentoo.net/

We simply can't scour the forums for new stuff all the time...

Also, This looks like it totally replaces the other bittorrent, so I'm going to put a blocker on bittorrent in the dependencies. If anyone here knows that that would be a mistake, please say something.

Karl

karl11 · Post by **karl11** » Wed Jun 18, 2003 7:41 pm

Just to let everyone know, I've pulled this off of breakmygentoo as all the things that are cool in this one are in the latest version of bittorrent on the portage tree.

Karl

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Sun Jul 20, 2003 7:56 pm

karl11 wrote:Just to let everyone know, I've pulled this off of breakmygentoo as all the things that are cool in this one are in the latest version of bittorrent on the portage tree.

Karl

i downloaded the experimental client and it works to download, but crashes if i mess with the sliders or upload/download rate.
so i emerged the one in portage but it looks nothing like the experimental client - i dont see any of the cool features from the experimental bt in the regular bt client. am i missing something then?

all i really need to do is lower my upload rate so i can surf the net while downloading. is there a way to accomplish that with the regular bt in portage?