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Bug 675409 - Parallel downloads for packages and repo metadata
Summary: Parallel downloads for packages and repo metadata
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Status: CLOSED EOL
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: yum
Version: 19
Hardware: Unspecified
OS: Unspecified
unspecified
unspecified
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Packaging Maintenance Team
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2011-02-05 13:39 UTC by Renich Bon Ciric
Modified: 2015-02-17 13:37 UTC (History)
6 users (show)

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Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Last Closed: 2015-02-17 13:37:03 UTC
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Description Renich Bon Ciric 2011-02-05 13:39:44 UTC 
Description of problem:
yum downloads one repo at a time and one package at a time; from a single repo. It should take advantage of the great number of repos available for Fedora.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
any

How reproducible:
yum makecahce

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Open a terminal
2. su -c 'yum makecache'
  
Actual results:
It will download only from the nearest repo (supposedly) and one meta at a time and one package at a time

Expected results:
It should choose a few (2 or more) and download, simultaneously, from them all.


Additional info:
This has been done on urpmi and smart. It shouldn't be so tough to implement.
Comment 1 Tim Lauridsen 2011-02-05 18:38:19 UTC 
(In reply to comment #0)

> Additional info:
> This has been done on urpmi and smart. It shouldn't be so tough to implement.

Patches are always welcome :)

There is many areas there is more useful to yum than simultaneously download IMO.
Comment 2 Renich Bon Ciric 2011-02-05 20:53:58 UTC 
(In reply to comment #1)
> Patches are always welcome :)
> 
> There is many areas there is more useful to yum than simultaneously download
> IMO.

Yeah, I know; me and my big mouth ;)

What is yum written in; python? I'll see what I can learn and do ;=)
Comment 3 Fedora End Of Life 2013-04-03 17:34:48 UTC 
This bug appears to have been reported against 'rawhide' during the Fedora 19 development cycle.
Changing version to '19'.

(As we did not run this process for some time, it could affect also pre-Fedora 19 development
cycle bugs. We are very sorry. It will help us with cleanup during Fedora 19 End Of Life. Thank you.)

More information and reason for this action is here:
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugZappers/HouseKeeping/Fedora19
Comment 4 Renich Bon Ciric 2013-08-01 05:51:06 UTC 
Dudes, apparently, this is partially implemented. We only need to download metadata in parallel now ;)

It would be awesome if that could be rsynced or something; download the missing parts only; as in presto.

Yeah... another bug report, I know...
Comment 5 jcpunk 2013-10-21 16:57:43 UTC 
looks like metadata can be downloaded async now too

from man yum.conf for yum-3.4.3 "If set to True Yum will download packages and metadata from this repo in parallel, if possible.  Defaults to True."

I'd say the origional bug report is resolved.
Comment 6 Renich Bon Ciric 2013-10-21 17:38:03 UTC 
(In reply to jcpunk from comment #5)
> looks like metadata can be downloaded async now too
> 
> from man yum.conf for yum-3.4.3 "If set to True Yum will download packages
> and metadata from this repo in parallel, if possible.  Defaults to True."
> 
> I'd say the origional bug report is resolved.

agreed
Comment 7 Renich Bon Ciric 2014-07-05 00:00:06 UTC 
This is resolved. Should we close the bug?
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