Feature added by: Johan Kotze (gogga) Feature #305874, revision 1, last change by Title: Enable peer to peer downloading of patches/software Buildservice: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Important openSUSE-11.2: Unconfirmed 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. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/305874