Mandriva guys also sent me 2 more patches: * exit-status.patch : Implements exit status in aria2, returning the status of the last error * Adaptive-URI-Selector-timeout.patch : Will retry with increased timeout on timeout errors, instead of failing
I'll review them and apply them to the upstream source. On 1月8日, 午前5:00, "Anthony Bryan" <[email protected]> wrote: > 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=15... > > 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 Linuxhttp://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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
