Theoretically, there's nothing stopping someone from creating a apt/yum-like tool that works with BT as the underlying transfer protocol. They setup a server, and anyone who wants to be a mirror would just download the whole thing then leave their BT client running as a seed. 3rd party additions to the protocol (I don't know if it's been added to the official client yet) also support multi-tracker, which appears to essentially mean backup trackers. Here's hoping that FC2(3?) has a BT install option.
Elliott Wilcoxon
John Reiser wrote:
Have you tried bittorrent? That deals nicely with slowdowns/corrupt files etc.
BTW Fedora Core 2 (test) is currently running @ 4 CDs
And therein lies an inconvenience with bittorrent. The more common installs
(Personal Desktop, Software Development Workstation) require only the first
2 or 3 CD images. Yet most torrents consist of all the images in a single
"bag", and it is not possible to rely on partial results being complete.
Stopping the download in the middle does not work, you must wait until
it is 100% finished before using any piece of it.
