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nworbnhoj wrote:I have often wondered if it would make sense to build these interim versions on an AWS EC2 instance and then the images would end up on S3 and readily shareable (ie avoid the upload)

ispyisail wrote: yeah.............I have thought this also.

I did a little work on this topic...............But the conclusion I came to is 95% of people use the same common images and 5% use all the other strange images.

so.....if every body downloads the same image 300 times x 5 meg each 1500 meg total

If I use "all" images at 300meg I only need to seed twice (600meg total) with torrents

Form first hand experience Torrents are real efficient

The down side to the end user is that needs to download 300meg each time

ispyisail wrote: yeah.............I have thought this also.

I did a little work on this topic...............But the conclusion I came to is 95% of people use the same common images and 5% use all the other strange images.

so.....if every body downloads the same image 300 times x 5 meg each 1500 meg total

If I use "all" images at 300meg I only need to seed twice (600meg total) with torrents

Form first hand experience Torrents are real efficient

The down side to the end user is that needs to download 300meg each time

If on me, i will upload all images inside folder and then put it in any torrent server, and then the user can choose his firmware image file at start download.

ispyisail wrote:You create a torrent as you describe and see how big it gets

ispyisail wrote:Hi all

If anybody is is interested this is how my setup works

My build machine is Ubuntu server on top of my work windows server 2012 via hyper-v.

I have a small script that does a full build and creates a torrent.

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#!/bin/bash

cd ~/gargoyle && git pull

make FULL_BUILD=true

name="gargoyle-ispy $(date +'%Y-%B-%d %H:%M')"

find ~/gargoyle/images/ -type f -printf "%f\n" > /home/user/Dropbox/Public/"$name".txt

7za a -t7z -m0=lzma -mx=9 -mfb=64 -md=32m -ms=on /var/lib/transmission-daemon/downloads/"$name".7z ~/gargoyle/images

## rm -rf /var/lib/transmission-daemon/downloads/gar*/

## cp -r /home/user/gargoyle/images/ /var/lib/transmission-daemon/downloads/gargoyle/

## mv /var/lib/transmission-daemon/downloads/gargoyle/ /var/lib/transmission-daemon/downloads/"$name"/

transmission-create -o /home/user/Dropbox/Public/"$name".torrent -c "www.gargoyle-router.com" -t udp://tracker.openbittorrent.com:80 -t udp://open.demonii.com:1337 -t udp://tracker.coppersurfer.tk:6969 -t udp://tracker.leechers-paradise.org:6969 /var/lib/transmission-daemon/downloads/"$name".7z

transmission-remote -n 'transmission:transmission' -a /home/user/Dropbox/Public/"$name".torrent

The problem with my work is we only have a slow ADSL connection

3 Mbps Down
0.6 Mbps UP

I have another site where I place a mirror images

200 Mbps Down
100 Mbps UP

But this transfer takes a bit of time

Hope this helps

Currently working on setting up travis-ci or some other service to build the source on any changes so and then upload it to github as binary. Will make everything easier.