Sorry for the cross-posting. I originally posted this idea on #fedora at irc.freenode.net and Anvil suggested I email these two lists with this idea. My idea was the following:
Have apt-get/yum/up2date/<insert favorite packaging system here> use BitTorrent for file downloads.
This would have the following benefits: Users would get a much faster download rate (at least, that's been my experience for the downloads I've done with BitTorrent). It would alleviate the 'which mirror should I use' problem. Anyone could easily become a mirror. It should keep any specific mirror from getting overloaded.
I figured this made so much sense that someone else has already thought of it and perhaps already implemented it. Anyone know if that's the case? If not, does that idea sound interesting to others?
Elijah
On Thu, 2003-07-24 at 17:53, Elijah P Newren wrote:
Sorry for the cross-posting. I originally posted this idea on #fedora at irc.freenode.net and Anvil suggested I email these two lists with this idea. My idea was the following:
Have apt-get/yum/up2date/<insert favorite packaging system here> use BitTorrent for file downloads.
This would have the following benefits: Users would get a much faster download rate (at least, that's been my experience for the downloads I've done with BitTorrent). It would alleviate the 'which mirror should I use' problem. Anyone could easily become a mirror. It should keep any specific mirror from getting overloaded.
I figured this made so much sense that someone else has already thought of it and perhaps already implemented it. Anyone know if that's the case? If not, does that idea sound interesting to others?
It could be interesting but remember- bittorrent is mostly useful for large files - not for trivially sized things like any single rpm.
-sv
On Wed, 2003-07-30 at 00:06, seth vidal wrote:
I figured this made so much sense that someone else has already thought of it and perhaps already implemented it. Anyone know if that's the case? If not, does that idea sound interesting to others?
It could be interesting but remember- bittorrent is mostly useful for large files - not for trivially sized things like any single rpm.
Depends, somes RPMs are quite large -- mozilla, OpenOffice.org, kernel-source, etc. But the demand wouldn't be nearly as high, I don't think, and BitTorrent works well when there's high demand. Of course, demand is sometimes high when security errata come out...hmm.
--Jeremy
On Wed, Jul 30, 2003 at 05:07:56PM -0400, Jeremy Portzer wrote:
On Wed, 2003-07-30 at 00:06, seth vidal wrote:
I figured this made so much sense that someone else has already thought of it and perhaps already implemented it. Anyone know if that's the case? If not, does that idea sound interesting to others?
It could be interesting but remember- bittorrent is mostly useful for large files - not for trivially sized things like any single rpm.
Depends, somes RPMs are quite large -- mozilla, OpenOffice.org, kernel-source, etc. But the demand wouldn't be nearly as high, I don't think, and BitTorrent works well when there's high demand. Of course, demand is sometimes high when security errata come out...hmm.
Discussions with Bram Cohen seemed to indicate it probabaly wasn't workable for package updates, so the idea never really got off the backburner.
Newer BitTorrents look like they might have some support for picking out small pieces of big archives, so maybe it could work.
Adrian
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