Bug#500653: apt-get must use faster download algorithms or aria2 as a backend downloader
Package: apt
Version: 0.7.14
apt-get apparently currently uses some simple wget-type sequential
download algorithm for all its functions that download anything from
the net, like update, install, dist-upgrade, upgrade, build-dep,
source etc. This really does not well use the available broadband
bandwidth of most users. Hence I am forced to use home-cooked scripts
to extract the URLs to download and then pass them to aria2 (GPL) to
download, so that the thing is done faster. If it is built-in,
everyone can benefit.
Granted, the user may not want his entire bandwidth hogged by apt-get,
but at least provide this as an option -- use a faster split-download
algorithm, or at least use a good backend downloader like aria2 which
provides high-speed downloading.
I am a downstream (Ubuntu) user of Debian apt, and the downstream
people redirected me to here from
http://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/275994
Shriramana Sharma.
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