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Hi guys, so i have a shitty connection at home with a lot of roomates and i'm trying to limit the bandwith i use so others can still browse and do stuff with internet.
I installed trickle packaged and try to update my system by running :
"trickle -d 100 -s pacman -Syu"
But still pacman uses all bandwith... i read the man and it appears the command line is good, somebody knows what is going on?
Should i use another program for this?
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You can use XferCommand (pacman configuration option) to accomplish this, see pacman.conf(5). The default pacman.conf has some examples of this option commented out.
But whether the Constitution really be one thing, or another, this much is certain - that it has either authorized such a government as we have had, or has been powerless to prevent it. In either case, it is unfit to exist.
-Lysander Spooner
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I see the options but it is not very clear to me, does pacman already use wget and/or curl?
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Based on pacman.conf(5), when the option isn't specified pacman uses "built-in HTTP/FTP support".
A good place to start would be to simply uncomment one of the examples and add the appropriate argument eg.
XferCommand = /usr/bin/curl --limit-rate 100k -C - -f %u > %o
But whether the Constitution really be one thing, or another, this much is certain - that it has either authorized such a government as we have had, or has been powerless to prevent it. In either case, it is unfit to exist.
-Lysander Spooner
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Failed to see this line on the man thanks
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man pacman.conf | less -p Xfer
Moving to NC...
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