gnome-bittorrent is an unsatisfactory bittorrent client

[Zach]

On 9/15/05, Sam Morris <sam at robots.org.uk> wrote:
> 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. :)
> 


very cool trick, indeed.