[Yum-devel] Looking for comments on Yum Fast Downloader and possible future enhancements in yum/yfd

seth vidal skvidal at fedoraproject.org
Mon May 23 14:37:06 UTC 2011


On Mon, 2011-05-16 at 12:35 +0430, Hedayat Vatankhah wrote:

> I should admit that I've not tried yum-utils after installing this
> plugin, however fortunately PK works fine with it. I had an issue with
> being run before presto, which forced me to rename the plugin so that
> it comes after presto alphabetically. I have not tried yumex too. :P

the download progress callbacks work? I am having a hard time believing
that.

> > 3. Why not work on porting yum to using an external application call to
> > do downloads. If properly implemented, I think that code to make yum use
> > an external application to do downloads would be accepted into mainline
> > yum.
> To be honest I didn't think that it will be accepted. But anyway,
> that's my bad; sorry for that. I'll start working on this. The first
> step will be a new download framework over the existing URLGrabber,
> which encourage download jobs to be submitted in groups rather than
> single files, and will notify the caller when each download is
> finished. I'll try to provide a working prototype/design soon.


Forking downloads off into a separate process in particular is not just
likely to be accepted it is an actively desired feature.

you could gain glamor and fame by implementing it.

and +20 charisma

-sv




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