Changing pacman downloader

techprophet · 2008-09-09 16:56:13

Is there a way I can change downloader that pacman uses? I think right now it uses wget; I want it to use axel and read the mirror list from my mirrorlist; Then do it's stuff downloading from all mirrors to boost download speed;

Is this possible or just fantasy? Or would I get a server ban for doing it?

SnapShot · 2008-09-09 17:32:43

Yes it's possible and it have been done.
http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Imp … oad_speeds

techprophet · 2008-09-09 19:28:41

OMGosh!! I still have noob glitch! I googled it but forgot to check the wiki! Oh well, thanks. Any recommendations on how to download from all pacman mirrors defined in mirrorlist simultaneously?

finferflu · 2008-09-09 20:39:42

You could also read it in pacman.conf

techprophet · 2008-09-10 15:05:08

How would I do that finferflu? Not exactly sure what you mean.

SnapShot · 2008-09-10 21:04:30

techprophet wrote:

OMGosh!! I still have noob glitch! I googled it but forgot to check the wiki! Oh well, thanks. Any recommendations on how to download from all pacman mirrors defined in mirrorlist simultaneously?

There are two usefull scripts mentioned on the Wiki. Powerpill wich uses aria2 to speed the download by semgenting the download in multiple parts and by using simultaneous downloads. The other script is pacget and wiki says for it:

It takes the download URL from pacman, then looks up the mirror list in /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist and adds them all as mirrors to aria2. What ends up happening is aria2 connects to 10-20 servers (the default is 4 servers max) downloading from all of them at the same time, which should give anyone on broadband a huge boost in download speed.

It seems to me that's exactly what you want

finferflu · 2008-09-11 10:24:37

techprophet wrote:

How would I do that finferflu? Not exactly sure what you mean.

If you look up the pacman.conf file, you will find the following entries commented out:

#XferCommand = /usr/bin/wget --passive-ftp -c -O %o %u
#XferCommand = /usr/bin/curl %u > %o

So they give you an idea of how to use an alternate downloader.

techprophet · 2008-09-12 12:18:15

I am using the following:

XferCommand = /usr/bin/axel -n 2 -a -o %o %u

Works well.

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Changing pacman downloader

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