To Be GNU/Hurd

I recently discovered that rtorrent has a very powerful XMLRPC interface. Now that I am so used to having a nice web interface for usenet I figured I would take a stab at something similar for torrents.

Unfortunately, the rtorrent package in Debian is not built with XMLRPC support because libxmlrpc-c3 is painfully out of date. I managed to find newer versions of the library package in Unutu "gutsy", which works fine in Debian unstable. I then rebuilt the Debian package with this line added to the debian/rules file.

DEB_CONFIGURE_EXTRA_FLAGS := --with-xmlrpc-c

Once I got the new rtorrent built and installed everything went very smooth. Right now I have a page that lists the current torrents and some status info for each. It should be trivial to add some simple controls thanks to Catalyst::Model::XMLRPC.

And in case you are actually interested, here is a screenshot of my progress:

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