aria2 1.1.2 is out. also, Tatsuhiro has merged the AdaptiveURISelector patch, which I believe is from Mandriva ( http://wiki.mandriva.com/en/Aria2 ).
https://sourceforge.net/tracker2/?func=detail&aid=2150656&group_id=159897&atid=813675 2009-01-06 Tatsuhiro Tsujikawa <[email protected]> Applied AdaptiveURISelector patch from Aurelien Lefebvre. This patch adds AdaptiveURISelector, which selects one of the bests mirrors for first and reserved connections. For supplementary ones, it returns mirrors which has not been tested yet, and if each of them already tested, returns mirrors which has to be tested again. Otherwise, it doesn't return anymore mirrors. there's also powerpill for Arch Linux http://xyne.archlinux.ca/info/powerpill Powerpill is intended to be a wrapper for the pacman package manager that is used on Arch Linux and some other GNU/Linux distributions. The main purpose of powerpill is to increase the speed of package downloads by using aria2c as a download accelerator. This is accomplished by parsing pacman output to generate a metalink file that is then piped to aria2c. This makes the following possible: * simultaneous downloads instead of pacman's sequential downloads * segmented downloads for files above a user-specified size The combined effect makes the most of your available bandwidth and can dramatically speed up downloads on high-speed connections. ... Metalink Uses Powerpill can display or save a metalink for a requested download operation. This could be useful if you wanted to download packages for one computer on another one because the other one has a better connection (e.g. higher speed, no volume cap). For example, if you wanted to do a full upgrade on computer A but download the files using computer B, transfering them using an external storage device (hard disk, usb stick), you could do the following: 1. on computer A, run "powerpill -Syu --get-metalink update.metalink" 2. transfer metalink file "update.metalink" to computer B 3. on computer B, run "aria2c update.metalink" to download the packages 4. transfer the packages to some directory on the external storage device 5. transfer the packages from the external storage device to /var/cache/pacman/pkg on computer A 6. run "powerpill -Su" on computer A On Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 6:46 PM, Anthony Bryan <[email protected]> wrote: > Tatsuhiro has posted a beta of aria2 1.1 for testing! > > http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=159897 > > This release fixes the many bugs such as buggy HTTP pipelining > implementation that leads to corrupted downloads, bad cookie handling > and sending bad formed URI to the tracker. --max-overall-upload-limit > option was added to controll overall(not per torrent) upload speed. > > From this release, aria2 validates the server certificate of HTTPS > servers by default. --with-ca-bundle compile time option is added to > specify the default path to the CA bundle. > > The most big changes in this release is that the package name is > changed from "aria2c" to "aria2". This changes the install directory > of documents and translation files(*.mo). This change is done in order > to fix the inconsistency of the package name and the install directory > since in many distributions the binary package name is "aria2", but > the old releases tried to install to "aria2c" directory such as > "/usr/local/share/doc/aria2c". > > > -- > (( Anthony Bryan ... Metalink [ http://www.metalinker.org ] > )) Easier, More Reliable, Self Healing Downloads > -- (( Anthony Bryan ... Metalink [ http://www.metalinker.org ] )) Easier, More Reliable, Self Healing Downloads --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Metalink Discussion" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/metalink-discussion?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
