Automated Mirror Selection [Re: Worst experience with Up2Date ever.]

[Andrew W. Donoho]

Folks,

	Forgive my jumping into what looks like an increasingly unproductive 
discussion but I have an idea that might help all involved:

Problems that need to be solved:
1) Not enough community mirrors.
2) Tester demand for up to the minute Rawhide updates.

Potential two part answer:
a) Point yum to a local repository.
b) Fill that repository via a daily torrent of upgraded Rawhide RPMs. 
Change the .torrent
  document daily. Probably a straightforward scripting problem.

Benefits to Redhat:
1) Torrents are, probably, a lower load on your server.
2) Users contribute to solving the problem instead of whining about 
dead mirrors.
3) Eventually move all Fedora users to this model. Make it the default.

Benefits to Fedora users:
1) Get relatively rapid access to new RPMs.
2) Simple but valuable contribution of bandwidth to the Fedora cause. I 
know I would feel better getting my updates via a torrent.
3) Yum delays from overloaded servers are a thing of the past.

Thoughts?

Best Regards,
Andrew
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