-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Dear All
First of all I'm just newbie on yum development, but I had an idea that might help to increase the performance of yum. What I am wondering about is to add torrent support to yum. As you might know p2p file sharing is really popular nowadays. Adding this feature could help yum in following ways: * Torrent might eliminate the need of local (unofficial) yum repositories(e.g. a university or/and an enterprise). It is likely to use torrent's local peer discovery feature for semi-distributed unofficial repository. Cache servers also add some costs to any kind of firm or institute that is not desirable. * There are dozens of popular packages which all of us needs them and there are dozens of rare or less popular packages which a local repo. must have. By using torrent, elimination of extra consumption of bandwidth and storage(not really a problem these days ;)) happens. * Torrent could also support web seed which means current http or ftp based repositories can continue to service others without any need to change the configuration or anything else. * Torrent has some really exciting features such as resume ability and error check during download * Having a dedicated tracker for repository files is awesome but if there is any problem the free and good trackers such as openbittorent and thepiratebay can be used for test porpuse P.S.I: torrent support can be provided through a plugin P.S.II: libtorrent has some python interface or python some how could support torrents because deluge (my favorite torrent client in linux) is written is python(As far As I know). Regards Sam -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.14 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Fedora - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iQIcBAEBAgAGBQJM//sVAAoJEGsSjTelvfiuxdMP/3gaa+xpVgkG+C0s3KOnSVr/ FFNuCo8noLfCmCM+fJ6sIRneXA2MYQiV0wIUOxNlD4+wUwbpRpt6s4mBJzBusotg D8db8ZNAuhRdDWQAo7J6/ZgEVtvZSewRFlqedkHg9P86pEaoG5N3AGMc7IMXUP4G T25KEupsQPBe6G7Sr22jokBsN8LelT5Y7lJ8KVQ+MvtN0OZdDmysT50ENxpWBBOj R8v6stL8revgivZ++rIP+hs4GuUhKx4kcl3sNXruV9UpCbm1Tcm0aBeYeI/XVDKg eZwAn6rtmb1ZeIk2zDxh7ZQrMdoxx399agOodosiEm1aFTxJwMFzYZ1cnmcCIPdK Da6fRvVPVqnJJTB4EaG8GvAIlLd1ebHjxaEENTy9un1IzaHzmM6BRyxfBwtOetH8 LjhD5R9BFScyW/2zmkWy/9A4g8RkKUyYEK5Mmj9XmYECEe0MegyCGECkeK66xrL8 ltSNd2aLBnxvcQqvh43mnLvnMP4++ISv5dGGj3Rq5TFo7wS/K290lpZfpiJh1Zhj eaYa5GVE5RzTUZXI1ct6YNUFtZgiG6mbsfcpyrEZwaqAJtR35nDzyQx9BtMjoWHr djSHrNwJIsN4BTmwCuFZG7d1Fa87snTYhlyKlh8Ob2Geoti2uMbbqibT9DMBWTDD eZRuAMr/l1Nb/etHUaJJ =tNJk -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Yum-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.baseurl.org/mailman/listinfo/yum-devel
