yum.conf shipped with 1.0

Thomas Dodd ted at cypress.com
Tue Oct 28 14:38:44 UTC 2003


Alan Cox wrote:
>>For now, I would highly advise spreading word of fedora.us repositories 
>>and other helpful 3rd party repositories.  Our tools and infrastructure 
>>are not ready for the entire world.
> 
> 
> I'm still pondering whether yum is only half of the answer or whether an
> infrastructure built around bt would be better. Something like

Interesting idea.
> 			Bittorrent those
> 
> 			Sit around for a little while helping uplink
> 			packages

How would that help those of use behind a firewall without configuration 
privileges? Does bit torrent support some sort of tunneling? Would it 
even be usefull to do so?

If you have to go through a 3rd machine, I don't see any real benifit to 
my machine being in the mix.

	-Thomas





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