Bug#690183: ITP: apt-fast -- shellscript wrapper for apt-get or aptitude

2012-10-15 Thread Dominique Lasserre
Hi, On 13/10/12 16:26, David Kalnischkies wrote: > What I meant is that apt-fast combines the path itself. > With a setting like Dir::Cache::archives="/tmp" I would expect the > archives directory to be /tmp, but as the script reads Dir and Dir::Cache > separately and concatenates them I end up wi

Bug#690183: ITP: apt-fast -- shellscript wrapper for apt-get or aptitude

2012-10-11 Thread Wouter Verhelst
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 >

Bug#690183: ITP: apt-fast -- shellscript wrapper for apt-get or aptitude

2012-10-11 Thread Dominique Lasserre
Hi On 11/10/12 16:52, David Kalnischkies wrote: > On Wed, Oct 10, 2012 at 11:53 PM, Dominique Lasserre > wrote: >> It uses aria2 oder axel as download managers and apt-get --print-uris to get >> download URLs. > > What it omits is using the checksums included in that output and therefore > falli

Bug#690183: ITP: apt-fast -- shellscript wrapper for apt-get or aptitude

2012-10-11 Thread Dominique Lasserre
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.

Bug#690183: ITP: apt-fast -- shellscript wrapper for apt-get or aptitude

2012-10-11 Thread Wouter Verhelst
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 ac

Bug#690183: ITP: apt-fast -- shellscript wrapper for apt-get or aptitude

2012-10-11 Thread Lisandro Damián Nicanor Pérez Meyer
On Thu 11 Oct 2012 09:59:35 Lisandro Damián Nicanor Pérez Meyer escribió: [snip] > Well, parallel download does **greatly** improves speed when you access > international servers, like we had to do in Argentina until some few weeks > ago. WRT non i386/amd64 archs. -- Programming today is a race

Bug#690183: ITP: apt-fast -- shellscript wrapper for apt-get or aptitude

2012-10-11 Thread Lisandro Damián Nicanor Pérez Meyer
On Thu 11 Oct 2012 02:55:24 Marco d'Itri escribió: > On Oct 11, Hideki Yamane wrote: > > > apt-fast is a shellscript wrapper for apt-get that can drastically > > > improve apt download times by downloading packages in parallel, with > > > multiple connections per package. > > > > well, isn't it

Bug#690183: ITP: apt-fast -- shellscript wrapper for apt-get or aptitude

2012-10-10 Thread Marco d'Itri
On Oct 11, Hideki Yamane wrote: > > apt-fast is a shellscript wrapper for apt-get that can drastically improve > > apt > > download times by downloading packages in parallel, with multiple > > connections > > per package. > well, isn't it huge load for repository servers? As a mirror operator

Bug#690183: ITP: apt-fast -- shellscript wrapper for apt-get or aptitude

2012-10-10 Thread Hideki Yamane
On Wed, 10 Oct 2012 23:53:31 +0200 Dominique Lasserre wrote: > * Package name: apt-fast > apt-fast is a shellscript wrapper for apt-get that can drastically improve apt > download times by downloading packages in parallel, with multiple connections > per package. well, isn't it huge load fo

Bug#690183: ITP: apt-fast -- shellscript wrapper for apt-get or aptitude

2012-10-10 Thread Dominique Lasserre
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Dominique Lasserre * Package name: apt-fast Version : 0.7.6 Upstream Authors: Matt Parnell, Dominique Lasserre * URL : https://github.com/ilikenwf/apt-fast.git * License : GPL-3+ Programming Lang: Bash Description