On Tue, 21 Jun 2005, Harnish, Joseph wrote: > I was wondering if there has thought or discussion on utilizing the > bittorrent network when available to download packages. > This could have the potential to help a person running a small network of > Linux boxes because he wouldn't have to setup a local repo to reap the > benefits of having the packages local (already downloaded by another host). > I think this could be a very beneficial plugin for yum especially if FC5 > will allow installing via yum through anaconda. > Thanks for listening of my crazy ideas, It would only help for downloading very large packages. In many cases the .torrent file would be larger than the .rpm itself. -Dan
