Received: (at submit) by bugs.debian.org; 30 May 2000 10:08:26 +0000 From vulture@aoi.dyndns.org Tue May 30 05:08:25 2000 Return-path: Received: from smtp2.abac.com [216.55.128.11] by master.debian.org with esmtp (Exim 3.12 2 (Debian)) id 12wiwi-0004yp-00; Tue, 30 May 2000 05:08:24 -0500 Received: from aoi.dyndns.org (qmailr@ip165.santa-clara14.ca.pub-ip.psi.net [38.29.70.165]) by smtp2.abac.com (8.10.1/8.10.1) with SMTP id e4UAC0Z34626 for ; Tue, 30 May 2000 03:12:15 -0700 (PDT) Received: (qmail 4852 invoked by uid 1001); 30 May 2000 10:14:11 -0000 Message-ID: <20000530101411.4851.qmail@aoi.dyndns.org> From: vulture To: Debian Bug Tracking System Subject: Suggestions for new Queue-Modes X-Reportbug-Version: 0.55 X-Mailer: reportbug 0.55 Date: Tue, 30 May 2000 03:14:11 -0700 Delivered-To: submit@bugs.debian.org Package: apt Version: 0.3.18 Severity: wishlist I'd like the addition of a few new Queue-Modes to APT: - `Round-Robin' When several sources have several of the same packages (which are to be downloaded) available, downloads a package from each of them, in a round-robin fashion. - `Concurrent' Similar to `Round-Robin' above, but downloads a package from each source concurrently. For fast links. - `Parallel' Downloads a number of chunks of the file from several sources concurrently. This can only be done with HTTP sources! As an example, for a 1MB file with 4 sources, download the first 256K from the first, the second 256K from the second, etc. The number of chunks to split the file into is determined by the number of sources with that file. (Note: While HTTP is the only APT-supported protocol that can do this at present, I believe rsync can do it as well, should you give apt the ability to use rsync.) Regards, Alex. -- System Information Debian Release: 2.2 Architecture: i386 Kernel: Linux cornerstone 2.2.15 #1 Sat May 6 03:48:07 PDT 2000 i686 Versions of packages apt depends on: ii libc6 2.1.3-10 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an ii libstdc++2.10 1:2.95.2-9 The GNU stdc++ library