Has anyone looked at the feasibility of yum and pirut using bittorent for downloads of updates ? Would this even work or help ?
Don Springall wrote:
Has anyone looked at the feasibility of yum and pirut using bittorent for downloads of updates ? Would this even work or help ?
Yum-devel list had discussions on using torrent which can be summarized as unfeasible. Not sure about Pirut. Guess its the same answer.
tir, 21 02 2006 kl. 11:14 -0700, skrev Don Springall:
Has anyone looked at the feasibility of yum and pirut using bittorent for downloads of updates ? Would this even work or help ?
bittorrent is really optimized for files in the 100 MB range, and we don't have many of those in the repos - also how would we justify the upload on dial up?
- David
On Tue, 2006-02-21 at 19:31 +0100, David Nielsen wrote:
bittorrent is really optimized for files in the 100 MB range, and we don't have many of those in the repos - also how would we justify the upload on dial up?
What about updates to OpenOffice.org, Eclipse, et al? ;-)