Mailinglist Archive: zypp-devel (83 mails)

[Stephan Kulow <coolo@xxxxxxx>]

Am Samstag, 7. Juni 2008 schrieb josef reidiner:
> Cristian Rodríguez napsal(a):
> > Lukas Ocilka escribió:
> > > And moreover downloading and installing in threads is faster than
> > > first downloading and then installing.
> >
> > I guess you might want to look at  libcurl "multi" implementation
> >
> > {1} http://curl.haxx.se/libcurl/c/libcurl-multi.html
> >
> > to make the downloading part parallel and reliable.
>
> If I understand it, this is something different. It is multiple download
> (good if you are faster then servers and also for small files on site
> with bad latency)..but we need download and install (which is faster if
> you doesn't have site at same speed as you hard disk :).

I would move all downloading into a download manager process that can be
queried over IPC once the main process is wanting to install the next package.

Greetings, Stephan
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