Yum / Up2date issues and mirror.centos.org

[greg.knaddison at gmail.com (Greg Knaddison)]

On 11/29/05, Maciej ?enczykowski <maze@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> Has anyone thought of using some interesting/innovative way to enable
> sharing of updates via a torrent-like swarm as well?
>

This has been considered - check out the list of "ToDont" items:

http://wiki.linux.duke.edu/YumTodont

It's a bad idea for a variety of reasons.

One solution to distributing the load is for CentOS to provide
CentOS.repo files that include a long list of mirrors and then
distribute the fastest-mirror plugin.  There are some problems in that
solution, but they are getting fixed.

Greg