Thanks for the heads up Axel, apologies for my lack of knowledge on project structure.
Cal On Sat, Jan 31, 2015 at 3:42 PM, Axel Beckert <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Cal, > > Cal Leeming wrote: >> For several months now I have been using apt-fast > > It would have been nice to add a reference to that program name as > that program is not part of Debian (and not of Ubuntu either). I > assume you are talking about this apt-fast: > > https://github.com/ilikenwf/apt-fast > http://www.mattparnell.com/projects/apt-fast-and-axel-roughly-26x-faster-apt-get-installations-and-upgrades.html > >> as a wrapper for apt-get. > > apt-get != aptitude > >> In short, it concurrently downloads all packages to cache, before >> handing back over to apt-get for running the installation. In every >> situation I have used this, it has resulted in faster download >> speeds. > > ... AFAIK using axel or aria2 as backends which AFAIK are basically > opening multiple TCP connections downloading the file in parallel in > parts. > >> Could a core dev please speculate on why similar functionality has not >> yet been implemented by default? Is this on the roadmap? If not, would >> such a feature ever be considered? > > aptitude-devel is the wrong list to ask this. Aptitude offloads > downloading to libapt-* which is built by the apt source package. > > Cc'ing the and setting the Reply-To header to the APT developer > mailing list, [email protected]. > > Regards, Axel > -- > ,''`. | Axel Beckert <[email protected]>, http://people.debian.org/~abe/ > : :' : | Debian Developer, ftp.ch.debian.org Admin > `. `' | 4096R: 2517 B724 C5F6 CA99 5329 6E61 2FF9 CD59 6126 16B5 > `- | 1024D: F067 EA27 26B9 C3FC 1486 202E C09E 1D89 9593 0EDE _______________________________________________ Aptitude-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/aptitude-devel
