On Fri, 24 Dec 2010 09:16:39 +0100 Zoltan Hoppar <hopparz@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi, > > I have red an very interesting article at Matt Parnell > (http://www.mattparnell.com) about how can be have faster downloads - > not just the updates for the package manager, and I really like it. > I'm sure that this artifact could be very useful where speed is a must > - especially at preupgrade. Well, after I have seen this - if I good > understand this - the based technique is slicing up the downloaded > data to pieces and so gets faster (multithread ftp). But I have seen 2 > different scripts - one is using aria, an another is using axel. > That's pretty neat. However, in my opinion aria2 is much better for > this purpose - but the questions are: > > - Is preupgrade using aria2 to make it faster the upgrade? > - Is there any plugin for yum that uses this technique? > - is it possible to combine presto and multithread ftp update (or > torrent technique) to get faster downloads? I would suggest the best places to suggest things like this would be: a) The upstream projects: https://lists.dulug.duke.edu/mailman/listinfo/yum-devel https://fedorahosted.org/preupgrade/newticket or b) bugzilla.redhat.com with a RFE (request for enhancement) bug. ;) Good luck. kevin
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