On Sun, 2008-03-02 at 15:29 -0500, Sunil Ghai wrote: > Hi, > We currently have yum-updatesd to check for the updated packages > automatically. Even to download and install them, if marked. Yum has a > throttle option which fixes the upper limit of maximum bandwidth > usage. How about fixing the upper limit dynamically depending upon the > current usage of bandwidth? i.e to download the packages using idle > bandwidth. > Those who have limited or slow Internet connection in many developing > countries, need to download packages without feeling noticeable > changes in other applications. e.g in browsing or downloading some > another important file. This way updates would be ready to install > without suffering slow internet connection meanwhile. > I am interested in implementing this, but problem is this would need > the support of repository server(s) to transfer files asynchronously. > Will it be possible? > http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/SummerCoding/2008/Ideas#head-f245bfb86b1ec5544b203dd977ee4ceb1318ce9f You can have yum-updatesd just download but not install the pkgs - which may help it. -sv -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
