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Chocopuff

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Native pacman Support for Parallel Download (and maybe install?)

Pacman doesn't have support for simultaneous downloading. Think like what apt-get can do. After looking into this, I realize that Powerpill exists. However I think such a feature should be standard and incorporated into pacman natively. If we were to try to implement such a feature, would it get good reception? Would the Arch developers allow or consider to add such a feature to pacman?

ewaller

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Re: Native pacman Support for Parallel Download (and maybe install?)

You might ask on the mail lists.  You are more likely to catch their attention there.  Allan pops in here often and has significant insight as to all things pacman.

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ugjka

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Re: Native pacman Support for Parallel Download (and maybe install?)

Why? To increase the load on mirrors? From my experience pacman already maxes out my connection (20Mbit), I see no point in doing paralel downloads

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apg

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Re: Native pacman Support for Parallel Download (and maybe install?)

https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/20056

Chocopuff

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Re: Native pacman Support for Parallel Download (and maybe install?)

I don't think it would increase load on mirrors. If anything, it would spread out the load across mirrors. Correct me if I'm wrong in my thinking. I was thinking of an implementation such that different packages are downloaded from different mirrors simultaneous. It does not decrease the number of packages that you have to end up downloading.

Yeah, I was also worried about whether such an implementation would increase load on mirrors and therefore be frowned upon. However, since Powerpill exists, I am inclined to believe that ppl are generally alright with it? Not sure. Point of this thread anyways

Edit:

@apg yeah, I saw that bug thread. I'm not sure what the current stance on the issue is. It's been 6 years since 2010.

Last edited by Chocopuff (2016-12-22 16:00:28)