Comments on: libZYpp, torrents and metalinks

By: duncan

duncan — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 13:40:09 +0000

Well, as the blog post says, it is not an official feature but you can use it as a preview with that enviroment variable. That should give you good mirror fallback for free. (by metalinks)

The usage of things like bittorrent depend on availability of them, and the metalinks themselves, and I don't think t makes sense for packages yet.

By: jose ricardo

jose ricardo — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 04:17:24 +0000

Hi again duncan, what’s the status of this feature? I have to admit this is an exciting feature to me.

By: zypper, rug, smart, YAST, apt or other? - openSUSE Forums

zypper, rug, smart, YAST, apt or other? - openSUSE Forums — Sat, 18 Oct 2008 09:35:35 +0000

[...] when one exists in about 0.61% of install attempts. Then you have: – Support for metalinks (Duncan Mac-Vicar P.

By: jrdls

jrdls — Sat, 11 Oct 2008 18:20:19 +0000

Wow, this sounds awesome. The use of bittorent and metalinks will place zypper ahead of any package manager. I like the fact that YaST2 devs are not rushing to implement it on openSUSE 11.1. Hopefully the aria2 integration will be “bug free” and ready to use by openSUSE 11.2

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Wed, 01 Oct 2008 17:26:44 +0000

[...] y metalinks. Posted in October 1st, 2008 by toomany in libzypp, opensuse, zypper Tal y como indica Duncan Mac-Vicar, el uso del HTTP para transferir ficheros quedará pronto obsoleto. Peter Poeml, ha asistido como [...]