Bug#690183: ITP: apt-fast -- shellscript wrapper for apt-get or aptitude
On Thu, Oct 11, 2012 at 10:50:54PM +0200, Dominique Lasserre wrote:
> Hi,
>
> wow, didn't thought there is much noise. Thank you all for your feedback!
>
> I added mirror support to download files from multiple mirrors at once
> (aria2 only) and now md5 hashes are checked (thanks David for the
> hint!). aria2 supports this ootb so no big changes were needed on
> apt-fast itself.
>
>
> On 11/10/12 18:22, Wouter Verhelst wrote:
> > On Thu, Oct 11, 2012 at 09:59:35AM -0300, Lisandro Damián Nicanor Pérez Meyer wrote:
> >> Of course, being able to download stuff from two different servers at the same
> >> time had a better end result, and as long as is one download at a time per
> >> server, I think it can be considered socially acceptable.
> >
> > Yes, which is why there's
> >
> > Acquire::Queue-Mode "host";
> Nice "hidden" feature!
>
> But this option and the mirror: protocol doesn't support downloading
> from multiple servers with same archive or am I missing something?
No, and for good reasons.
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