Wednesday 11th October 2006
Local Packages
The BitTorrent download site has a new tarball, version 4.24.2, and RPMs of version 4.26.0. With no source available for the latter, I took a look at the former. There's quite a lot of changes, so I had to rework three of the patches I apply (to turn off the version check, to fix the application directory name, and to move the public key directory). The GUI seems to work OK on FC5, but the package is broken for python 2.3 now as it uses collections.deque, which is only available from python 2.4. The seed client doesn't work at all, falling over as follows:
Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/bin/btseed", line 82, in ? config['torrent_dir'] = \ AttributeError: 'module' object has no attribute 'decode_from_filesystem'- So I've decided not to release this version, and see if the sources for 4.26.0 turn up.