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> My understanding is that there's no standard way to update a torrent file; you re-roll a new file with the changes. You should only re-distribute the origina
by bhouston 2y ago
> My understanding is that there's no standard way to update a torrent file; you re-roll a new file with the changes.
You should only re-distribute the original file that was downloaded and thus one can just advertise the original torrent that was downloaded.
But as you said earlier, brew is a point in time command and this BitTorrent solution would only really work if brew switched to an always-on service. And I am not sure that many people want to do that, although I am sure some would.