Les Mikesell wrote: >>Here's a wild thought, maybe the whole idea of ISO images, sampling a >>copy of the rest of the repo state base-only or with updates, is >>actually the evil part here. > Partly right. I see :-) > It's obviously horribly wasteful and not particularly > useful to have a gazillion mirror copies of the giant every-changing > workspace of fedora archived away. However, isos make good bittorrent > and rsync targets and as such make sense for bandwidth sharing and > saving. Bittorrent and rsync works fine with directories of files. > Maintaining local yum repos means you have to mirror a lot of gunk > you'll never use and relying on remote ones means trouble when > things get out of sync. What we need is a more intelligent way > to share bandwidth without cluttering the world with useless > snapshots. A cacheing proxy might be interesting to solve this objection, rather than an explicit mirror. Then nothing is pulled down that is not a selected package for at least one proxy user. -Andy
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