On 6/29/05, Michael Stenner <mstenner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > If you want to pursue this, I'd encourage you to look into how > yum/urlgrabber currently do the network stuff. For example, yum > currently relies heavily on the ability to extract JUST THE HEADERS > from an rpm on the server. FTP/HTTP/File can do that, but BitTorrent > cannot. > I'm not trying to promote Yum/BT integration, but I'm not sure about this point. BT is suited, in fact based, on getting pieces of the file. They currently use "least available" and/or "random piece" algorithms to decide which piece to get, but I believe that is client based and could be changed to do a bitrange fairly easily. Bill - if you are interested in working on this, from what I hear the btports http://groups.yahoo.com/group/btports/ group on yahoo is fairly active in doing these sorts of things. I'm not sure that "FTPOBT" is such a great idea...but it might be interesting to you to try. Greg
