Re: Plugin for yum to download packages in parts
Konstantin Ryabitsev <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.linux.rpm.yum |
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2009/11/14 arpit Aggarwal <[email protected]>: > Does yum download packages in parts(like download managers) or it simply > downloads packages in a single session?? > > If yum downloads packages without splitting them into parts, then why not > develop a plugin for yum that will make yum download packages like a > download manager. > > Moreover it should be made such that yum may be able to download multiple > packages simultaneously and all packages in parts after dependencies has > been resolved. > This will greatly improve speed of installing and updating of packages. > > Is it feasible?? Yes, it's just hard, because you have to rewrite so much of the downloader code. If done right, you could even create a swarm that could download the same package from 10 different mirrors. Regards, -- McGill University IT Security Konstantin Ryabitsev Montréal, Québec _______________________________________________ Yum mailing list [email protected] http://lists.baseurl.org/mailman/listinfo/yum