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

[Kevin Martin]

The idea, of course, would be for it to use multiple mirrors to do the downloads.

Why wouldn't it be faster in that fashion?

Thanks for the reply.

Kevin

Alan Cox wrote:
> 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
>