** Changed in: apt (Debian)
Status: New => Fix Released
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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/275994
Title:
support parallel downloads from the same host
Status in apt package in Ubuntu:
Triaged
Status in apt package in Debian:
Fix Released
Bug description:
Binary package hint: apt
apt-get apparently currently uses some simple wget-type sequential
download algorithm for all its functions that download anything from
the net, like update, install, dist-upgrade, upgrade, build-dep,
source etc. This really does not well use the available broadband
bandwidth of most users. Hence I am forced to use home-cooked scripts
to extract the URLs to download and then pass them to aria2 (GPL) to
download, so that the thing is done faster.
Granted, the user may not want his entire bandwidth hogged by apt-get,
but at least provide this as an option -- use a faster split-download
algorithm, or at least use a good backend downloader like aria2 which
provides high-speed downloading.
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