How can we speed up rpm downloads?

[John Summerfield]

cornel panceac wrote:
> 2008/6/16 Patrick O'Callaghan <pocallaghan at gmail.com>:
> 
>> On Mon, 2008-06-16 at 08:14 +0800, John Summerfield wrote:
>>> I _might_ do better if I use parallel downloads from more servers, but
>>> I
>>> figure if I do that I make things worse at the server and on the
>>> network
>>> between. Besides, I _know_ some public ftp (and rsync) server
>>> operators
>>> object to parallel connexions from a single IP address. I don't need
>>> to
>>> be banned for 24 hours.
>> AFAIK apt-get uses parallel connections on different servers.

I can't tell that even that is true. My debian systems have one primary 
source of packages, and one of security updates. I don't have a ready 
way to test package downloads, but certainly getting metadata (updated 
package info) doesn't seem to run in parallel.

Most Debian users will have at least two mirrors enabled, their base 
repo plus security. They may also have contrib and (I think it still 
exists) non-free. Oh, and volatile (spam filters and other frequently 
updated data).

I don't think I would want apt-get hitting all these at once, and I've 
not net considered after-market repos such as backport.org and all those 
catalogued at http://apt-get.org/


> which was the whole idea.

Debian doesn't use a mirror list, it asks users to choose a mirror at 
install/setup time and that's where is sources new packages into the future.


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Cheers
John

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