FS#8195 - Pacman should download from multiple mirrors simultaneously.

Attached to Project: Pacman
Opened by Tal Levy (levytal) - Monday, 01 October 2007, 23:21 GMT
Last edited by Dan McGee (toofishes) - Thursday, 29 November 2007, 21:22 GMT
Task Type Feature Request
Category General
Status Closed
Assigned To Aaron Griffin (phrakture)
Dan McGee (toofishes)
Architecture All
Severity Very Low
Priority Low
Reported Version 3.0.6
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 1
Private No

Details

I think that pacman should be able to download multiple packages simultaneously from multiple mirrors according to a number of connections set in pacman.conf. The connection number could also automatically change according to utilized bandwidth but this would be more complicated to implement.
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Closed by  Dan McGee (toofishes)
Thursday, 29 November 2007, 21:22 GMT
Reason for closing:  Won't implement
Additional comments about closing:  This doesn't make sense as a core feature of pacman, and everyone should be able to find a mirror that is quick enough to max out their connection. We aren't talking p2p here.
Comment by Roman Kyrylych (Romashka) - Wednesday, 03 October 2007, 09:00 GMT
IMHO this is overkill.
Comment by Dan McGee (toofishes) - Wednesday, 03 October 2007, 12:03 GMT
XferCommand, feel free to implement this. What mirror are you downloading from that isn't saturating your bandwidth anyway? You may be able to pick a better mirror.
Comment by Aaron Griffin (phrakture) - Wednesday, 03 October 2007, 22:27 GMT
  • Field changed: Severity (Low → Very Low)
  • Field changed: Priority (Normal → Low)
This would be libdownload territory, and yes, I do actually want to implement this, but it's a complex task.

Marking this down - while it's important, it's not really pacman territory

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