X-Recipient: archive-cygwin AT delorie DOT com X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Date: Fri, 30 Oct 2009 08:58:52 -0400 From: Christopher Faylor To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: Parallel downloading of Cygwin packages Message-ID: <20091030125852.GB1361@ednor.casa.cgf.cx> Reply-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com References: <4AEAD9EE DOT 4010009 AT gamr7 DOT com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4AEAD9EE.4010009@gamr7.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com 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