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Date: | Fri, 30 Oct 2009 14:46:00 -0400 |
From: | Paul McFerrin <pmcferrin AT columbus DOT rr DOT com> |
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Subject: | Re: Parallel downloading of Cygwin packages |
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Don't you mean, "Stand in line? :) Christopher Faylor wrote: > On Fri, Oct 30, 2009 at 01:19:58PM +0100, Ron de Bruijn wrote: > >> I use the latest installer, but it only uses one mirror to download >> packages from at the same time. I have the impression that the mirror >> I selected only gives about 30KB/s, which makes installing Cygwin slow. >> What I would like the installer to do is to download from all mirrors >> in parallel different packages and in case one mirror doesn't respond >> that it just drops that one and uses another one. The mirrors together >> should be able to saturate my connection. >> > > I'd like the installer to use a more intuitive UI, be more capable of > running from the command line, and be able to handle RPMs. > > FYI. > > cgf > > -- > Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html > FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ > Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html > Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple > > > -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
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