> What the focus of this should be (IMHO): > > Your workstation has 25 updates. 10 from Extras, 10 from Updates and > 5 from Dag. > > Extras and Updates have X number of mirrors > Dag has a separate X number of mirrors > > Why can't I pull one extra package from Extras mirror 1, one extra > package from Extra mirror 2, one Dag package from Dag Mirror 1 and so > forth as long as I have the available bandwidth. > > The thing with BitTorrent I think that it manages it's bandwidth usage > (maybe not). I know me personally thought of BT because of it's > ability to spread it's downloads across mirrors. And I now understand > that it BT itself is not the answer but I think that thinking along > the lines of threaded downloads might benefit YUM most of all. > > _______________________________________________ > Yum mailing list > Yum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > https://lists.dulug.duke.edu/mailman/listinfo/yum Hi, Joseph. This sounds like a very reasonable idea. However, if I could get the BT-FTP thing going, you could potentially get fast parallel downloads with out needing many servers, and I'm hoping the changes to YUM would be minimal. Bill
