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| author | Hedayat Vatankhah <hedayat.fwd@gmail.com> | 2011-05-11 17:55:18 +0430 |
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| committer | Hedayat Vatankhah <hedayat.fwd@gmail.com> | 2011-05-11 17:55:18 +0430 |
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@@ -0,0 +1,25 @@ +Yum Fast Downloader Plugin +========================== +This plugin intends to speedup yum downloads by using a download manager +application (currently Aria 2) for downloading files instead of URLGrabber +which is used by yum. +Currently, it provides the following features: +* Using fastest mirrors for downloading +* Downloading repository metadata from several mirrors simultaneously +* Downloading multiple packages in parallel from several mirrors + +Currently, it doesn't support downloading delta rpms and other kinds of files + +Installation +============ +All you need to do is to put fast_downloader.py into /usr/lib/yum-plugins and +fast_downloader.conf in /etc/yum/pluginconf.d/ + +Future Plans +============ +* Support downloading delta packages +* Support downloading other files +* Support other download managers +* What else?! + + |