A few questions first: Will there be official builds of aria2? Will there be official .metalinks?

For the brave, nightly builds of DownThemAll!, a Firefox extension, support Metalink - mirrors & full file checksums, no download repairs yet. (Expect a beta in a few weeks). In this screenshot, the icon/logo, description, publisher, license, OS/arch, & other info are taken from the metalink. Some cool possibilities.

http://code.downthemall.net/maierman/metaselect4.png

http://bugs.code.downthemall.net/trac/wiki/NightlyBuilds

.metalinks for 10.3 Alpha5 are at http://download.packages.ro/metalink/opensuse/

Collection metalinks which contain CD1-6 in a single metalink are at http://download.packages.ro/metalink/opensuse/collections/

All .metalinks contain repair info (chunk checksums). I've updated the wiki.

aria2 (RPMs graciously provided at http://linux01.gwdg.de/%7Epbleser/rpm-navigation.php?cat=/Network/aria2 ) can autocorrect/repair metalink downloads if they contain chunk checksums. Basically, your finished download should have no errors when it's done, similar to rsync and BitTorrent downloads. And it should be pretty fast (depending on your connection speed) by using multiple mirrors.

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