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Feature changed by: Stephan Kulow (coolo)
Feature #305874, revision 5
  Title: Enable peer to peer downloading of patches/software
   
- Buildservice: Unconfirmed
+ Buildservice: New
  Priority
      Requester: Important
   
- openSUSE-11.2: Unconfirmed
+ openSUSE-11.2: Rejected by Stephan Kulow (coolo)
+ reject date: 2009-03-30 20:21:06
+ reject reason: out of focus
  Priority
      Requester: Important
   
+ openSUSE-11.3: New
+ Priority
+     Requester: Important
   
  Requested by: Johan Kotze (gogga)
   
Description:
  It would be great if we could somehow include a peer to peer
  functionality for the download of patches/packages. This would greatly
  reduce the number of mirrors required and would increase the
  performance for many users in countries with limited international
  bandwidt. I was thinking that we host a torrent tracker on opensuse.org
  and build a torrent client into zypper/libzypp and allow the user to
  allocate a portion of disk space for downloaded packages. Most modern
  systems have ample disk space and should be able to spare around 4GB
  for downloaded packages. This is also in line with the spirit of
  community where we help each other out. If it works well, it could also
  be used to distribute patched internally inside an organization when
  they deploy SLE.
   
  Discussion:
  #1: Marek Stopka (m4r3k) (2009-03-06 09:03:43) 
  I would rather see something like GNUnet used for this :-)
   
+ #2: Stephan Kulow (coolo) (2009-03-30 20:23:00) 
+ I would think with using aria2 as download client, it would
+ automatically work once we use opensuse.org tracker for _everything_.
+ But if not, we push the software side to 11.3, as for 11.2 we only want
+ to work on the top 5 features.
   
   

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openSUSE Feature: 
https://features.opensuse.org/305874