Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 142850
[RFE] swarm up2date instead of using http
Last modified: 2007-11-30 17:10:56 EST
Description of problem: Currently, up2date pipes all updates off of Redhat's servers. During peak load times, this results in unacceptably long transmission times-- frequently so long that up2date simply fails, but without giving any message to that effect to the user. Additional info: Suggestion: instead of using the current ftp/http-like model, move it to a swarming model such as BitTorrent. Using a swarming model, the load on RH's servers would vary from (at best case) having to serve up nothing more than the MD5 keys; to at worst having to serve up a single copy of the file in question. The reduction in required resources at RH looks pretty enormous from this perspective, as does the improvement in distribution of updates.
Fedora Core 3 is now maintained by the Fedora Legacy project for security updates only. If this problem is a security issue, please reopen and reassign to the Fedora Legacy product. If it is not a security issue and hasn't been resolved in the current FC5 updates or in the FC6 test release, reopen and change the version to match. Thank you!
Closing per lack of response to previous comment. If this still occurs on FC3 or FC4 and is a security issue, please assign to Fedora Legacy and the appropriate version. The bug could also be filed against RHEL if it is relevant there. up2date has been replaced by pirut and pup in FC5 and FC6, the still fully supported versions of Fedora Core, so this bug will not be fixed unless it is a security issue.