Bug#64910: Suggestions for new Queue-Modes
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
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