How can we speed up rpm downloads?

[Arthur Pemberton]

On Fri, Jun 13, 2008 at 12:45 PM, Justin Conover
<justin.conover at gmail.com> wrote:
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> On Fri, Jun 13, 2008 at 10:46 AM, Bryn M. Reeves <bmr at redhat.com> wrote:
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>> cornel panceac wrote:
>> >> 2008/6/13 Jerry Amundson <jamundso at gmail.com
>> >> <mailto:jamundso at gmail.com>>:
>> >>     Not necessarily. Even at high speed, I don't want dozens of rpm
>> >>     downloads taking all the bandwidth. I have mailgroups to read!
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>> >>     jerry
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>> > what if you download only one rpm per repo?
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>> Doesn't really help if you're bandwidth constrained. Parallel downloads
>> from different repos will still end up crushing your network connection.
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>> Parallel downloading is good for some users but it probably shouldn't be
>> the default.
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>> Regards,
>> Bryn.
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> So a yum-paralllel-download would be a good package to have ;)

Or  preemptive throttled rpm downloader to download likely to be
needed files into the yum cache

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