Re: multithreaded package download

On Sun, 2009-03-01 at 17:53 +0530, pranjal pandit wrote:
> hello,
> i have downloaded the yum source code through git.
> I want to do two things( as discussed  in previous mails)
> 
> 1)multiple parts download of a single rpm file from a server which
> would increase overall download speed especially of the large sized
> packages.

look at downloadPkgs() in yum/__init__.py



> 
> 2) simultaneous downloads of two or more packages from different
> mirrors; which would again make process faster in case when a large
> number of small sized packages are to be downloaded(sizes 20kb 50kb).

same as above, then look through urlgrabber for a while and
yum/yumRepo.py


-sv