-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Monday 17 November 2003 16:14, Dave Roberts wrote: > I was actually thinking about just this same thing the other day. What > if we crossed yum with bittorrent? A really neat way to do this would be to make a new <protocol>:// thing, however that works, for example bittorrent://server/path/to/.torrent, which fetches the .torrent 'metadata' file over http as usual, using the given path, but then 'dereferences' the .torrent into the payload file using bittorrent, in one step. The result of the bittorrent:// thing is the payload file as far as the program can tell. With this method no changes would be needed to yum or other things, its just a new protocol like ftp:// or http://. > downloading new packages and updates. While there is bound to be a surge > right after an update comes out, I'm sure it pales in comparison to a Bittorrent actually gets better the more people there are contributing bandwidth.... and I think many many users would be willing to leave a 5Kbps (or whatever they could afford) upload throttled BT session up permanently serving ISOs or updates, this would be like their contribution. In fact that could be part of 'up2date', it could be napsterized that to use it you must share your updates. > For the first time with Fedora, I downloaded my ISOs with bittorrent and > it was fantastic. If you have never used this method before, I highly Couldn't agree more, plus its great that as you are pulling you are also giving to other people. - -Andy -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/uP4MjKeDCxMJCTIRAu+oAJ9m7qkQ1/7zhpyiE6llcUeCQL5bywCfc72E c1yXusUVfBHAdspN47UiBZw= =05HM -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
