yum.conf shipped with 1.0

Alan Cox alan at redhat.com
Tue Oct 28 18:14:15 UTC 2003


> > > 	update-daemon	queries DNS to get a TXT value to the 'current'
> > > 			bittorrent seed set (DNS is a nice scalable=20
> > > 			mechanism to distribute the regularly queried info)
> 
> How would a local mirror be managed in this system ?
> Setting up repository mirrors should not be made overly difficult, else
> all small edge mirrors disappear.

If you are pushing updates between users by bittorrent you don't need
mirrors although if you wanted you could use bittorrent to populate 
ftp/http mirrors too





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