up2date/yum and bittorrent

[Rob Park]

Dan Stromberg wrote:
> Patches too small to be worth the overhead?

Well, 500MBs to 1GB seems to be the "sweet spot" for BitTorrent... 
anything more and you're risking the seed disappearing before anybody 
finishes, anything less and everybody finishes and goes away so quickly 
that the torrent only lasts a few hours... :)

Having each package being it's own torrent, for only about a few MBs, 
just wouldn't really provide much benefit, unless there were hundreds of 
people downloading at once.

Now, if a yum repository wanted to mirror the entire repository on one 
single torrent, that might be worthwhile... mirror the repository into 
your yum cache with bittorrent, then use yum to install the RPMs that 
you want...