Package: bittornado-gui Version: 0.3.11-4 Severity: wishlist On a big torrent, say a season of a TV show like MST3K, it's nice to be able to seed from a few files you already have (e.g. downloaded from usenet) without having bittornado scribble over the head and tail of the files where pieces overlap with files you don't have. Basically, I'm looking for a read-only option. Or even for bittornado to not have problems if I chmod 444 my files that already have known-good MD5 hashes.
This would be like never-download, except it would seed the good pieces from the file, and wouldn't unlink it when exitting. Another nice thing would be a was for bittornado to save the rest of the pieces that overlap with good files into the neighbouring files, even if they're set to never download. (So it doesn't have to download them again if I re-start the client and the cache has expired.) Even better might be an option to ignore pieces that span files you don't have (and are set to never-download). It sometimes happens that you download a file from usenet but it's suffered some bit-rot, so you want to use a torrent to fix the erroneous bytes. But the pieces at the head and tail get re-downloaded unneccessarily, just because bittornado can't know that they're ok, because the checksum is for a piece that spans a file you don't have. Anyway, I want to be able to partially seed a torrent without having my already-good files messed up, at a minimum. If I chmod 444 them, bittornado still tries to write, but it gets an error and stops. -- System Information: Debian Release: 3.1 APT prefers testing APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.10-rc2-mm4-vanilla Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968) Versions of packages bittornado-gui depends on: ii bittornado 0.3.11-4 bittorrent client with enhanced cu ii libwxgtk2.4-python 2.4.2.6 wxWindows Cross-platform C++ GUI t ii python 2.3.5-1 An interactive high-level object-o -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
