XFree86 available via yum

[Mike A. Harris]

On Wed, 15 Oct 2003, Noah Silva [Mailing list] wrote:

>> >I think they want http access to the ftp site. Some one
>> >mentioned better download speed with http. It's probably a
>> >configuration/firewall issue on their end though. But they want
>> >to use an http URL for yum since it's faster for them currently.
>
>HTTP has better access times, because it only needs one port open, and
>doesn't typically have a log in procedure for anonymous access.  Even anon
>FTP still has to log in for every file (or at least for every server).
>You can definately see the difference with APT, especially on higher
>latency connections.

And rsync has even better access times.  Perhaps we should 
disable both ftp and http, and use rsync exclusively instead.  
;o)

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Mike A. Harris     ftp://people.redhat.com/mharris
OS Systems Engineer - XFree86 maintainer - Red Hat