Updates using idle bandwidth

[seth vidal]

On Sun, 2008-03-02 at 15:29 -0500, Sunil Ghai wrote:
> Hi,
> We currently have yum-updatesd to check for the updated packages
> automatically. Even to download and install them, if marked. Yum has a
> throttle option which fixes the upper limit of maximum bandwidth
> usage. How about fixing the upper limit dynamically depending upon the
> current usage of bandwidth? i.e to download the packages using idle
> bandwidth.
> Those who have limited or slow Internet connection in many developing
> countries, need to download packages without feeling noticeable
> changes in other applications. e.g in browsing or downloading some
> another important file. This way updates would be ready to install
> without suffering slow internet connection meanwhile.
> I am interested in implementing this, but problem is this would need
> the support of repository server(s) to transfer files asynchronously.
> Will it be possible?
> http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/SummerCoding/2008/Ideas#head-f245bfb86b1ec5544b203dd977ee4ceb1318ce9f

You can have yum-updatesd just download but not install the pkgs - which
may help it.

-sv