Re: integrate yum with bittorrent.

On Sat, Jul 2, 2011 at 7:32 PM, Spacelee <[email protected]> wrote:
> My situation:
> 1. more than 100 servers
> 2. just 1 repo server.
> 3. we need to update 100 server's software, and the network is just
> 1000mbps.
> Download the software from the repo server is really slow for 100 nodes, and
> with this limitation, we couldn't update softwares parallel, someone
> suggests me using bittorrent, but my question is how to integrate bittorrent
> with yum? so that I don't need to use a bittorrent client to download files
> first and then use yum localinstall? And just with the original command :
> yum install software
>
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> Space Lee
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bittorrent is useful for distribution of large static content like
cd/dvd images it is not useful for distribution many changing files
like updates in a linux distribution.

Tim