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yum-torrent(1)           General Commands Manual           yum-torrent(1)

NAME         top

       yum-torrent - download packages via http and peer-to-peer

DESCRIPTION         top

       yum-torrent extends the behaviour of yum by downloading then
       seeding packages via BitTorrent.  Once installed and configured,
       the plugin works transparently.

FILES         top

       yum-torrent makes extensive use of cache files. The BitTorrent
       client's cwd is set to the root of the cache by default.  All
       generated .torrent files are guaranteed to contain files in
       subdirectories.  Once a torrent download is complete the files are
       hard or soft linked to the path in /var/cache/yum where yum will
       look before starting it's own downloads, bypassing it.

       yum-torrent will automatically clean up unused files and
       directories left over from previous runs.

              /var/cache/yum_torrent/torrenthash.torrent
              /var/cache/yum_torrent/torrenthash.torrent.log
              /var/cache/yum_torrent/path/to/package.rpm
              /var/cache/yum/repo/packages/package.rpm

AUTHOR         top

       Matthew Almond <malmond@fb.com>

SEE ALSO         top

       yum-torrent.conf(5), pkgtorrent-service(8),
       pkgtorrent-service.conf(5)

COLOPHON         top

       This page is part of the yum-utils (Yum Package Manager utilities)
       project.  Information about the project can be found at 
       ⟨https://github.com/rpm-software-management/yum⟩.  It is not known
       how to report bugs for this man page; if you know, please send a
       mail to man-pages@man7.org.  This page was obtained from the
       project's upstream Git repository
       ⟨https://github.com/rpm-software-management/yum-utils.git⟩ on
       2025-02-02.  (At that time, the date of the most recent commit
       that was found in the repository was 2020-03-11.)  If you discover
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                              09 MARCH 2016                yum-torrent(1)

Pages that refer to this page: yum-torrent.conf(5),  pkgtorrent-service(8)

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