yum update...any way to have it download multiple packages at once?

[Alan Cox]

On Tue, 22 Jan 2008 15:20:01 -0600
Kevin Martin <kevintm at ameritech.net> wrote:

> When using Yum to update a system, is there any way to tell yum to download more than one package at a time?  If, say, there are 
> 15-20 packages to update, it would be nice if yum could do the download asynchronously instead of synchronously and then

It wouldn't be materially faster, in fact its likely to make it slower
and you'll put more load on the download site.

Alan