gnome-bittorrent is an unsatisfactory bittorrent client

[Sam Morris]

Zach wrote:
> [gnome-bittorrent] takes, IIRC, the exact same command line options as
> the basic bittorrent commandline client, which let you limit things
> like max upload, max download, min port, max port, etc.  You have to
> edit the various places where it is launched from in order set the
> command line options.  One of those is the menu item in gnome, and
> another is the mime association, firefox, I believe.  Also you could
> create a shell script or alias that passes those options to
> gnome-bittorrent.

dpkg-divert can help with this. dpkg-divert allows you to tell dpkg that 
you want a certain file moved out of the way. dpkg will remember this if 
you later upgrade/remove/install the package:

  dpkg-divert --add --local /usr/bin/gnome-bittorrent

Create a file /usr/bin/gnome-bittorrent:

  #!/bin/bash
  exec /usr/bin/gnome-bittorrent.distrib --max_upload_rate 12 "$@"

Make the file executable:

  chmod a+x /usr/bin/gnome-bittorrent

Now you have a custom gnome-bittorrent that limits its uploads to 
12k/sec. Other arguments can be added, to taste. :)

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Sam Morris
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