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Subject:	Re: Parallel downloading of Cygwin packages
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On Fri, Oct 30, 2009 at 01:19:58PM +0100, Ron de Bruijn wrote:
>I use the latest installer, but it only uses one mirror to download
>packages from at the same time.  I have the impression that the mirror
>I selected only gives about 30KB/s, which makes installing Cygwin slow.
>What I would like the installer to do is to download from all mirrors
>in parallel different packages and in case one mirror doesn't respond
>that it just drops that one and uses another one.  The mirrors together
>should be able to saturate my connection.

I'd like the installer to use a more intuitive UI, be more capable of
running from the command line, and be able to handle RPMs.

FYI.

cgf

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