On Fri, Jun 13, 2008 at 12:45 PM, Justin Conover
<justin.conover(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On Fri, Jun 13, 2008 at 10:46 AM, Bryn M. Reeves <bmr(a)redhat.com> wrote:
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> cornel panceac wrote:
> >> 2008/6/13 Jerry Amundson <jamundso(a)gmail.com
> >> <mailto:jamundso@gmail.com>>:
> >> Not necessarily. Even at high speed, I don't want dozens of rpm
> >> downloads taking all the bandwidth. I have mailgroups to read!
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> >> jerry
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> > what if you download only one rpm per repo?
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> Doesn't really help if you're bandwidth constrained. Parallel downloads
> from different repos will still end up crushing your network connection.
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> Parallel downloading is good for some users but it probably shouldn't be
> the default.
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> Regards,
> Bryn.
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So a yum-paralllel-download would be a good package to have ;)
Or preemptive throttled rpm downloader to download likely to be
needed files into the yum cache
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