> Great to hear that you work on a more general fix for apt-get. As described in comment #5, I was originally planning to make a virtual package server such that a list of files can be easily obtained from any package manager just by directing it to the server. It would then download them and place in /var/cache/apt/archives/, then you would try again in the package manager which would have nothing to download. I was going to wrap apt-get such that the retry is automatic. Then I noticed that instead of wrapping apt-get, there are some Python APT bindings available. And I was about to start reinventing parts of Aptdaemon.
So instead of using apt-get, I will use aptdcon and implement solutions in Aptdaemon as described in comment #7. After I have done this, I may still apply the virtual package server idea as an Aptdaemon client. This may allow 'legacy' package managers like Synaptic to /partially/ use Aptdaemon and allow concurrent downloads/installs. Synaptic, however, will still require bug #80753 to be fixed in this case. > Download and install in parallel is currently progressing only slowly, during > the current summer of code we got a new order algorithm that can now order > the packages in a way that puts them together in groups that can be installed > independently. That's interesting. Are those groups equivalent to transactions? > You linksed to "pacserve" which is quite interessting. Are you aware of the > similar (but not quite the same) project "squid-deb-proxy" and > "squid-deb-proxy-client" ? No, I hadn't. My long-term aim is that more efficient downloads (from LAN if available) can be achieved without configuring or messing around with proxies/shared caches/local mirrors/etc. So I'm preferring to contribute to Aptdaemon. It would be awesome if Ubuntu has these Aptdaemon solutions out-of-the-box. I'm also thinking that this is going to take a great deal of load off Ubuntu's servers if/when this happens. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/830492 Title: Downloads should not lock apt To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/apt/+bug/830492/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
