Automated Mirror Selection [Re: Worst experience with Up2Date ever.]

[seth vidal]

> Potential two part answer:
> a) Point yum to a local repository.
> b) Fill that repository via a daily torrent of upgraded Rawhide
> RPMs.Change the .torrent
> document daily. Probably a straightforward scripting problem.

A torrent of ALL of rawhide is 50+GB of disk space.

You'll never be able to sync it all and most people will be fairly
pissed about eating up that much space.


> Benefits to Redhat:
> 1) Torrents are, probably, a lower load on your server.
> 2) Users contribute to solving the problem instead of whining
> aboutdead mirrors.
> 3) Eventually move all Fedora users to this model. Make it the
> default.
> 
> Benefits to Fedora users:
> 1) Get relatively rapid access to new RPMs.
once you get passed all the overhead involved.


> 2) Simple but valuable contribution of bandwidth to the Fedora cause.I
> know I would feel better getting my updates via a torrent.

How do you separate out your updates from all the other crap?


-sv