On 4/23/06, seth vidal <skvidal(a)linux.duke.edu> wrote:
> On Sun, 2006-04-23 at 19:53 -0700, Z wrote:
>
>> Joe Desbonnet wrote:
>>
>>> I sent this suggestion to the original poster of the thread and it
>>> may have become lost:
>>>
>>> Project proposal: integrate Suse DeltaRPM software with yum to improve
>>> bandwidth efficiency when updating a distribution. I've experimented
>>> with this and I've got good results
>>> (see
http://www.wombat.ie/software/rpmdc/manual.html ). However my
>>> implementation is heavy, requiring Java, Tomcat etc.
>>>
>>> Joe.
>>>
>>>
>> What about using bittorrent as a transport?
>>
>>
> Read the logs of this and yum mailing lists.
>
> It's been hashed out probably a dozen different times.
>
>
Could you please summarise the conclusion?