Swift Griggs <swiftgriggs%gmail.com@localhost> writes: > I know pkgsrc has a FETCH_USING parameter that allows you to override it's > default file-downloader. However, I don't believe this will take advantage > of aria2's parallel capabilities. It won't allow it to branch out to all > the master_sites at once since it'll only get passed one site at a time as > they fail or time out. > > So, my real question is this: is there any reasonable way to use aria2 with > pkgsrc and take advantage of the parallelism? Currently, I don't think so. But it could be reasonable to modify the infrastructure so that some FETCH_USING targets are configured to get all the master_sites values instead. However, I'm not sure how mainstream this desire is. I have a script to update packages and one thing it does is run make fetch in the source directory of every installed package. I am hardly ever annoyed waiting for this. What kinds of things do you download that take lots of time, and what kind of speedup do you get? I wonder if some sort of bittorrent distfile mirror would be a better solution (for Free distfiles only, of course, or at least those without NO_SRC_ON_FTP, the same set that's on the TNF mirror).
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