Re: Bug#690183: ITP: apt-fast -- shellscript wrapper for apt-get or aptitude

2012-10-13 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Sb, 13 oct 12, 16:55:17, David Kalnischkies wrote: > > If you don't fall for such placebo effects you are unfortunately out of luck > as "host" is the default, but you can use a service like http.debian.net > (which only works so well because "host" is the default …) to get a > real benefit - a

Re: Bug#690183: ITP: apt-fast -- shellscript wrapper for apt-get or aptitude

2012-10-13 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Jo, 11 oct 12, 18:22:50, Wouter Verhelst wrote: > On Thu, Oct 11, 2012 at 09:59:35AM -0300, Lisandro Damián Nicanor Pérez Meyer > wrote: > > Of course, being able to download stuff from two different servers at the > > same > > time had a better end result, and as long as is one download at a

Re: Bug#690183: ITP: apt-fast -- shellscript wrapper for apt-get or aptitude

2012-10-11 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Thu, Oct 11, 2012 at 09:59:35AM -0300, Lisandro Damián Nicanor Pérez Meyer wrote: > Of course, being able to download stuff from two different servers at the > same > time had a better end result, and as long as is one download at a time per > server, I think it can be considered socially ac

Re: Bug#690183: ITP: apt-fast -- shellscript wrapper for apt-get or aptitude

2012-10-11 Thread Lisandro Damián Nicanor Pérez Meyer
On Thu 11 Oct 2012 09:59:35 Lisandro Damián Nicanor Pérez Meyer escribió: [snip] > Well, parallel download does **greatly** improves speed when you access > international servers, like we had to do in Argentina until some few weeks > ago. WRT non i386/amd64 archs. -- Programming today is a race

Re: Bug#690183: ITP: apt-fast -- shellscript wrapper for apt-get or aptitude

2012-10-11 Thread Lisandro Damián Nicanor Pérez Meyer
On Thu 11 Oct 2012 02:55:24 Marco d'Itri escribió: > On Oct 11, Hideki Yamane wrote: > > > apt-fast is a shellscript wrapper for apt-get that can drastically > > > improve apt download times by downloading packages in parallel, with > > > multiple connections per package. > > > > well, isn't it

Re: Bug#690183: ITP: apt-fast -- shellscript wrapper for apt-get or aptitude

2012-10-10 Thread Marco d'Itri
On Oct 11, Hideki Yamane wrote: > > apt-fast is a shellscript wrapper for apt-get that can drastically improve > > apt > > download times by downloading packages in parallel, with multiple > > connections > > per package. > well, isn't it huge load for repository servers? As a mirror operator

Re: Bug#690183: ITP: apt-fast -- shellscript wrapper for apt-get or aptitude

2012-10-10 Thread Hideki Yamane
On Wed, 10 Oct 2012 23:53:31 +0200 Dominique Lasserre wrote: > * Package name: apt-fast > apt-fast is a shellscript wrapper for apt-get that can drastically improve apt > download times by downloading packages in parallel, with multiple connections > per package. well, isn't it huge load fo

Bug#690183: ITP: apt-fast -- shellscript wrapper for apt-get or aptitude

2012-10-10 Thread Dominique Lasserre
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Dominique Lasserre * Package name: apt-fast Version : 0.7.6 Upstream Authors: Matt Parnell, Dominique Lasserre * URL : https://github.com/ilikenwf/apt-fast.git * License : GPL-3+ Programming Lang: Bash Description