Re: apt PARALLELISM
On Tuesday 06 December 2005 13:09, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote:
> On Tue, 06 Dec 2005, Ivan Adams wrote:
> > I have slow internet connection. BUT I have friends with the same
> > connection in my local area network, who have apt-proxy.
> > My goal is: When I need to install new system (Debian) on new user, or
> > dist-upgrade on entire system, I need the unstable packets from site. In
> > this case I need to wait some HOURS. If apt have *PARALLELISM* , I could
> > use my connection and at the same time the connections of apt-proxy.
> > In that case I will download the packets twice (or more) faster.
>
> You could also have a (partial) local mirror that you update over the
> night, or use only apt-proxy connections in all machines but one, and have
> that one do regular updates to keep apt-proxy fresh with new packages.
>
> I doubt very much so parallel downloads will be added to apt.
apt-torrent seems to approach that too:
http://sianka.free.fr/documentation.html
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