Re: F7 KDE spin

["Andrew Parker" <andrewparker bigfoot com>]

On 1/10/07, Ralf Corsepius <rc040203 freenet de> wrote:
> On Tue, 2007-01-09 at 17:49 -0500, Andrew Parker wrote:
> > On 1/9/07, Chitlesh GOORAH <chitlesh fedoraproject org> wrote:
> > > On 1/9/07, Gilboa Davara <gilboad gmail com> wrote:
> > > > Asking them to download 100s of MB during the installation is a mistake.
> > >
> > > Then they will have to download the 100s of MB through downloads!
> > > In the end, it is the same thing.
> >
> > Downloading hundreds of different files is much slower than
> > downloading one file of the same size.
> Only if having a very reliable and fast connection. With low bandwidth
> or unreliable connections, the opposite applies.
>
> > Also, the initial spin is likely (?) to be downloaded via bittorrent,
> > which is not an option for yum when it needs individual packages.
> >
> > A single iso download can also feed multiple PCs (up to 5 in my case),
> > which is far more efficient than downloading the same hundreds of
> > files several times over.
> With a couple tricks applied (sharing yum caches over a network) yum can
> do the same.

well, i did think about setting up squid to do this job, but..

1.  yum uses mirrors.  not knowing squid that much, i don't know if it
can be convinced to consider different hosts and different paths to be
the same?
2.  not all of my pcs that i install on are local to each other, so
wouldn't be able to benefit from this.

besides, it is still the case that downloading hundreds of different
files is much slower than
downloading one file of the same size.