[Yum-devel] [PATCH] download DRPMs in parallel, if possible

[James Antill]

On Tue, 2012-06-05 at 10:03 -0400, Zdenek Pavlas wrote:
> This is very similar to what we do in YumBase.downloadPkgs().
> 
> If urlgrabber supports parallel downloading and we have compatible
> Yum and repo._getFile(), just add async and failfunc arguments.
> 
> As _getFile(async=True) returns *before* the file is downloaded,
> most of the post-processing was being moved to checkfunc.
> Error handling is duplicated in failfunc, because we can delay
> a callback, but not raising an exception.
> 
> To make this work, recent builds if yum and urlgrabber are needed
> http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel/2012-May/167122.html
> but we are still compatible with the old Yum, too.

 ACK. But the giant win will be if we can integrate drpm
downloads/builds with rpm downloads.