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FS#22038 - pacman: download limit rate from the command line

Attached to Project: Pacman
Opened by Hervé (herve) - Friday, 10 December 2010, 09:09 GMT
Last edited by Guillaume ALAUX (galaux) - Friday, 14 January 2011, 15:32 GMT
Task Type Feature Request
Category Packages: Core
Status Closed
Assigned To No-one
Architecture All
Severity Low
Priority Normal
Reported Version
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 1
Private No

Details

Description:

Use case: I have limited bandwidth in the countryside. At the moment of this writing, I can't surf the Web while I update the system.

You can set custom download commands in the configuration file, but they are not as nicely integrated as the default one. I guess you are using wget or curl as a library.

My request is about adding the "--limit-rate" flag of wget/curl to pacman and transfer it to the library call. I would be more convenient than editing the configuration file each time I download from here, while not affecting the readable pacman output.

Additional info:
* pacman 3.4.1-1
* My try at reproducing the default output of pacman:

XferCommand = /usr/bin/wget --limit-rate=40k --passive-ftp -c -O %o %u

But it would print the whole conversation with the server. "--quiet" would suppress it but the progress bar too.

Steps to reproduce:

I could welcome you here but it would be an expensive travel for a minor request. ;-)
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Closed by  Guillaume ALAUX (galaux)
Friday, 14 January 2011, 15:32 GMT
Reason for closing:  Fixed
Additional comments about closing:  OP requested to close
Comment by Hervé (herve) - Thursday, 23 December 2010, 08:40 GMT
Closing this bug. I found out trickle in the meantime.

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