Updates using idle bandwidth

[Andrew Farris]

seth vidal wrote:
> 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

man yum-updatesd.conf does not specify if its possible to set a bandwidth limit 
on this only.  Is it possible to have yum-updatesd use a bandwidth limit but not 
have it set on yum when run manually?

I'm not clear on whether the 'throttle' and 'bandwidth' configuration would 
apply to yum-updatesd.  It would still not be a dynamic adjustment but if users 
knew how this worked it might be a good enough solution.

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