On Tue, Jun 21, 2005 at 05:11:11PM -0400, Harnish, Joseph wrote: > >On Tue, 2005-06-21 at 15:42 -0400, Harnish, Joseph wrote: > 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. For lots of uninteresting architectural reasons, it would be very difficult and cumbersome to get yum to use bittorrent intelligently. It's also really not the right tool for this job. Currently, the way to cleanly do what you describe is to either run your own yum repo (which is REALLY REALLY easy) or run a caching proxy. There are also non-clean tricks like running yum once on one machine and then priming the caches on other machines. -Michael -- Michael D. Stenner mstenner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx ECE Department, the University of Arizona 520-626-1619 1230 E. Speedway Blvd., Tucson, AZ 85721-0104 ECE 524G
