>On Tue, 2005-06-21 at 15:42 -0400, Harnish, Joseph wrote: >> Hello, >> >> 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. > >Short: >http://www.google.com/search?q=yum+bittorrent+site% >3Alists.dulug.duke.edu > >Shorter: >Kludgy, scales poorly, and doesn't offer significant benefits. > >--icon Maybe I should rephrase my thoughts. Would it be a good idea to add support for distributed yum repository cache awareness to yum? It could be similar to a function of Y.O.U. (Yast Online Updater) where it can be configured as a local mirror. Or with mDNSResponder a tool like yum could find local copies of the packages before attempting to go to the sites out on the internet. This is probably irrelevant to most users but when I run yum and wait for packages to come down and then I move on to another machine and wait again I feel like there could be a better way to do it. Thanks, Joe -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.dulug.duke.edu/pipermail/yum/attachments/20050621/9094a5de/attachment.htm
