Daniel Burrows wrote: > On Mon, Jan 19, 2009 at 08:58:36PM -0500, "H.S." <hs.sa...@gmail.com> was > heard to say: >>> Apt(itude) should respect the following configuration setting: >>> >>> Acquire::http::Dl-Limit "7"; // 7Kb/sec maximum download rate > > [snip] > >> I think this will be most useful when aptitude downloads updates >> automatically (usually in a Ubuntu machine). > > Does Ubuntu install an aptitude cronjob?
er .. don't know for sure. I will try to find out. IIRC, it is an option in its Administration -> Software Sources menu item if the logged in user is an administrator. Perhaps they use cron-apt, not sure. > >> However, while having this option in apt.conf, is there a method to >> override or ignore this from aptitude command line? For example, I would >> like to limit the download rate for automatic aptitude downloads which >> happen in background but would like to use more bandwidth while updating >> a system myself from the command line. > > aptitude -o Acquire::http::DL-Limit=<whatever> <arg>... Wonderful. This also shows how to override other options. Thanks! Regards. -- Please reply to this list only. I read this list on its corresponding newsgroup on gmane.org. Replies sent to my email address are just filtered to a folder in my mailbox and get periodically deleted without ever having been read. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
