up2date/yum and bittorrent

[Dan Stromberg]

On Fri, 2003-12-19 at 12:01, Adrian Likins wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 19, 2003 at 10:37:07AM -0800, Dan Stromberg wrote:
> > 
> > Anyone considered making yum/up2date use bittorrent to decrease load on
> > the yum server(s)?
> 
> 	I've looked into it a bit. Discussions with the
> creator of bittorrent have led us to belive it wouldnt
> work all that well. 
> 
> 	But I'd like to see a prototype anyway, just
> out of curiosity. I started a little work on it, but
> ran out of time. 
> 
> 	If someone else wants to do it, that would
> be cool ;->
> 
> 
> Adrian

Patches too small to be worth the overhead?

-- 
Dan Stromberg DCS/NACS/UCI <strombrg at dcs.nac.uci.edu>

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