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

Richard Shaw hobbes1069 at gmail.com
Tue Jan 22 21:29:32 UTC 2008


On Jan 22, 2008 3:20 PM, 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, once all
> of the downloads are done, install the packages in the appropriate
> fashion.  If yum can't do that are there any other updaters for
> Fedora that can?
>
> Thanks.
>
> Kevin Martin
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I think you mean you would like the packages downloaded in parallel instead
of sequentially. It could probably be done with a yum plugin and it would
probably be a good idea to specify a maximum number of simultaneous
downloads.

Richard
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