How can we speed up rpm downloads?

[Leslie Satenstein]

My two cents worth.

I only download once to burn a dvd. Thereafter, I download the updates. I only fetch the DVD about two days after the release.  I also go to a site half way around the world, where the typical linux developer is asleep (local time 9pm, remote time, 3am), so that that mirror is not under heavy load.   I get fairly good download times.

With updates I use the designated mirror list. Usually find that updates rarely take more then 10 minutes of download time. No, I do not have super high speed, only DSL speed. I am not concerned about a difference of 10 megabytes, I am concerned that the rpm is received without corruption due to transmission errors.  This is caught by rpm or yum.

 

Leslie


--- On Fri, 6/13/08, seth vidal <skvidal at fedoraproject.org> wrote:
From: seth vidal <skvidal at fedoraproject.org>
Subject: Re: How can we speed up rpm downloads?
To: "For testers of Fedora Core development releases" <fedora-test-list at redhat.com>
Date: Friday, June 13, 2008, 9:29 AM

On Thu, 2008-06-12 at 22:18 +0300, cornel panceac wrote:
> parallel downloads is the answer imho. ( or at least one of the
> answers :) )

Parallel downloads crush a lot of network connections. Dial up is one in
particular.

-sv


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