Fedora ftp site?

[Tom Mitchell]

On Sat, Mar 20, 2004 at 05:14:41PM +0000, Paul wrote:
> Any ideas why downloading from the Fedora FTP site should be so dog
> slow? It usually whizzes!

Has anyone filed an RFE to include bittorrent in the FC2 package.
I gave a quick look but did not find one.

It seems to me that bittorrent is a necessary subcomponent 
and prerequisite for enhancements like: Bugzilla Bug #:   116567

It would provide a foundation to extend  /etc/init.d/yum and
/etc/cron.daily/yum.cron to be a prefetcher for yum and up2date.
Synchronization provided by cron would make the torrent more
effective.  Local time zones could  tend to localize the torrent
on the net.

It would permit the http get code in yum and up2date to be extended
much in the same way that up2date now understands yum.

And in the future  /etc/cron.daily/yum.cron might look like

    /usr/bin/yum -R 20 -e 0 -d 0 -y --bittorrent --download-only update

Then when folks see the RHN tool turn red they will have packages
already downloaded.

The duke rpm packages seem like a great start..
  http://torrent.dulug.duke.edu/
  http://torrent.dulug.duke.edu/btrpms/

All three: yum, up2date, bittorrent are python so reuse of code 
should be possible.

Many of the packages are big enough...
36076 - 36894064 Mar 10 14:39 kernel-2.6.3-2.1.253.src.rpm
38988 - 39870785 Mar 20 10:10 openoffice.org-libs-1.1.0-32.i386.rpm
43372 - 44355715 Mar 18 14:27 kernel-source-2.6.3-2.1.253.2.1.i386.rpm
47592 - 48675702 Mar 20 10:10 openoffice.org-i18n-1.1.0-32.i386.rpm

It would also establish a distribution foundation for 'small' mirror
sites that now depend on rsync.


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