Using bit torrent to retrieve RPMs for updates

Alexandre Strube surak at casa.surak.eti.br
Thu Feb 26 22:31:53 UTC 2004


Em Qui, 2004-02-26 às 18:42, Jonathan Gardner escreveu:
> Has anyone given serious thought to changing Yum so that it uses the 
> bittorrent protocol to retrieve RPMs? Especially in the case of updates, 
> when everyone and their grandmother needs to get the RPMs right away, this 
> would make a lot of sense. Yum could manage a repository of RPMs and 
> constantly serve those up so other can download parts of them via 
> bittorrent, all with permission, of course.

I was talking about this for months, until I discovered fedora-devel,
and realized that I was talking in the wrong place :-)

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