The net-p2p/ctorrent has multiple issues that are unresolved, as it appears that no work has been done on the ctorrent program in over 2 years. These problems include many bugs in the bandwidth limiting areas as well as many overflows that result in ctorrent sending invalid data to trackers (-35805235 bytes) and also problems with files over 2GB in size. This has resulted in ctorrent being unusable for the majority of trackers on the internet today. Most of these trackers block "ctorrent". Patching is an option and many of these patches are available and could be collected, but is this worthwhile? It is my opinion that ctorrent should be depreceated in favor of another client that is based on ctorrent but maintained. Many of these exist. I would suggest ectorrent, which is available from http://www.rahul.net/dholmes/ctorrent/ and has specific FreeBSD support. I can easily submit a port for ectorrent if the ctorrent maintainer does not wish to. Maintainer cc'd: flz@FreeBSD.org
Responsible Changed From-To: freebsd-ports-bugs->flz Over to maintainer
> http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=92662 > >> Category: ports >> Responsible: freebsd-ports-bugs >> Synopsis: net-p2p/ctorrent port contains multiple problems >> Arrival-Date: Wed Feb 01 03:20:02 GMT 2006 Sorry, didn't look into this enough, seems some of the patches are already in use. :) However, the newest version of the patch is not. That would fix any problems that I observed (dnh2). I'm sure the maintainer can take care of this. Thanks, -- Jeffrey H. Johnson CPE1704TKS@bellsouth.net
State Changed From-To: open->closed I've updated to enhanced ctorrent patchset 2, thanks for the notice!