[Yum] [UG] parallelizing downloading

Greg Knaddison greg.knaddison at gmail.com
Wed Jun 29 20:35:59 UTC 2005


This came up in the BT/yum discussions and it got me thinking...

What are the thoughts on parallel downloading?  I resubjected this to
be a UG issue, but maybe it should be handled in yum and not UG.

Thoughts?
Greg

On Wed, 29 Jun 2005, Harnish, Joseph wrote:
> Why can't I pull one extra package from Extras mirror 1, one extra package
> from Extra mirror 2, one Dag package from Dag Mirror 1 and so forth as long
> as I have the available bandwidth.

I suspect parallelizing yum downloading will be a lot of work.

-Dan



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