On Sat, 9 Dec 2006, Volker Kuhlmann wrote:
1) Novell did not prepare metalink files with segment information. 2) the aria2c client doesn't handle segment checksums.
You call that reliable? It is no more reliable than a single http/ftp download.
It is far less reliable than a single ftp/http from a good server if the download method gets chunks from multiple servers of which some are good and some are bad. The unreliabilities of each chunk(-server) are multiplied here. A chunked download without chunked checking isn't worth the bother IMHO.
A single failure proves unreliability. A hundred sucesses do not prove otherwise.
Especially if the single failure is as bad as it possibly can.
I had wget once wipe a download for me at the 2GB limit (on 128kbit cable, arrrgh). I didn't use it again for anything serious until that was fixed.
Of course, rsync always works reliably and as a bonus, fixes things up too.
Could you update the page at http://en.opensuse.org/Metalinks with an
exact command. My friends are out for a few days and there computer is
not online for me to quickly gramd the command I used. I do not have the
time right now to look it up again and sort things out.
Thanks,
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Boyd Gerber