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authorHedayat Vatankhah <hedayat.fwd@gmail.com>2014-03-30 02:40:00 +0430
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Integrate with URLGrabber and support latest Yum versions
- support recent Yum versions - integrate with urlgrabber to download all files - new configuration option for specifying arbitrary arguments for aria2c
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@@ -2,24 +2,22 @@ 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.
+which is used by yum.
Currently, it provides the following features:
* Downloading repository metadata from several mirrors simultaneously
* Downloading multiple packages in parallel from several mirrors
-* Supports HTTP/HTTPS proxies
+* Downloading delta rpms
* Using fastest mirrors for downloading
-Currently, it doesn't support downloading delta rpms and other kinds of files
-
Installation
============
All you need to do is to put yum-fast-downloader.py into /usr/lib/yum-plugins
-and yum-fast-downloader.conf in /etc/yum/pluginconf.d/
+and yum-fast-downloader.conf in /etc/yum/pluginconf.d/.
+Also put yum-fast-downloader-finalize and urlgrabber-ext-down-yfd into /usr/libexec
Future Plans
============
-* Support downloading delta packages
-* Support downloading other files
+* Support for http/https proxies
* Support other download managers
* What else?!