Sorry, I should have given more details on why I am trying to do that: the Internet connection I use at work is handled by a router which do automatic load-balancing between two different connections. So when bandwidth usage of the first connection is saturated, all new connections are routed to the second one.
Although bandwidth of those two connections (1024kb/s + 512 kb/s) are limited and shared with other colleagues, in general I see some good dl speed improvements using tools that can do parallel fetch, that's why I'm trying to make portage act this way. Paul: I tried your modified FETCHCOMMAND, but without success :( My configuration only allows me to run emerge as root (most of the time I use sudo). The only thing I get trying to emerge media-libs/libdvbpsi is this log (maybe I can activate a more verbose one, but I don't know how?) : >>> Emerging (1 of 1) media-libs/libdvbpsi-0.1.6 >>> Downloading ' http://mirror.ovh.net/gentoo-distfiles/distfiles/libdvbpsi5-0.1.6.tar.bz2' >>> Downloading ' http://download.videolan.org/pub/libdvbpsi/0.1.6/libdvbpsi5-0.1.6.tar.bz2' !!! Couldn't download 'libdvbpsi5-0.1.6.tar.bz2'. Aborting. * Fetch failed for 'media-libs/libdvbpsi-0.1.6', Log file: * '/var/tmp/portage/media-libs/libdvbpsi-0.1.6/temp/build.log' >>> Failed to emerge media-libs/libdvbpsi-0.1.6, Log file: >>> '/var/tmp/portage/media-libs/libdvbpsi-0.1.6/temp/build.log' And in the build.log: >>> Downloading ' http://mirror.ovh.net/gentoo-distfiles/distfiles/libdvbpsi5-0.1.6.tar.bz2' >>> Downloading ' http://download.videolan.org/pub/libdvbpsi/0.1.6/libdvbpsi5-0.1.6.tar.bz2' !!! Couldn't download 'libdvbpsi5-0.1.6.tar.bz2'. Aborting. Download work great when I type directly: puf http://download.videolan.org/pub/libdvbpsi/0.1.6/libdvbpsi5-0.1.6.tar.bz2' Any help please ? 2009/12/19 Marcus Wanner <marc...@cox.net> > On 12/18/2009 1:38 PM, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > >> On 12/18/2009 05:40 PM, Ronan Mainbourg wrote: >> >>> Because my Internet connection is not very fast, I'd like to make >>> portage fetch files using net-misc/puf (wich can dl several chunks of a >>> file at the same time) instead of wget. >>> >> You got it backwards. Downloading more than one chunk at the same time is >> only useful on *fast* connections, not *slow* ones. >> > I hate to say it but he is correct...puf won't do you any good unless the > speed at which to file is being downloaded is less than the maximum speed > for your net connection :( > > Marcus > > -- Ronan Mainbourg ronan.mainbo...@gmail.com
