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From: Xi Shen <davidshen84@××××××××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Trying to make portage use "puf" instead of "wget"
Date: Sun, 20 Dec 2009 04:04:27
Message-Id: 53e35fd50912191940s64b4e2b0med302f7b51775f49@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Trying to make portage use "puf" instead of "wget" by Ronan Mainbourg
1 according to puf's syntax, you should put the URI at the END of the command.
2
3
4 On Sat, Dec 19, 2009 at 10:08 PM, Ronan Mainbourg
5 <ronan.mainbourg@×××××.com> wrote:
6 > Sorry, I should have given more details on why I am trying to do that:
7 >
8 > the Internet connection I use at work is handled by a router which do
9 > automatic load-balancing between two different connections.
10 > So when bandwidth usage of the first connection is saturated, all new
11 > connections are routed to the second one.
12 > Although bandwidth of those two connections (1024kb/s + 512 kb/s) are
13 > limited and shared with other colleagues, in general I see some good dl
14 > speed improvements using tools that can do parallel fetch, that's why I'm
15 > trying to make portage act this way.
16 > Paul:
17 > I tried your modified FETCHCOMMAND, but without success :(
18 > My configuration only allows me to run emerge as root (most of the time I
19 > use sudo).
20 > The only thing I get trying to emerge media-libs/libdvbpsi is this log
21 > (maybe I can activate a more verbose one, but I don't know how?) :
22 >
23 >>>> Emerging (1 of 1) media-libs/libdvbpsi-0.1.6
24 >>>> Downloading
25 >>>> 'http://mirror.ovh.net/gentoo-distfiles/distfiles/libdvbpsi5-0.1.6.tar.bz2'
26 >>>> Downloading
27 >>>> 'http://download.videolan.org/pub/libdvbpsi/0.1.6/libdvbpsi5-0.1.6.tar.bz2'
28 > !!! Couldn't download 'libdvbpsi5-0.1.6.tar.bz2'. Aborting.
29 > * Fetch failed for 'media-libs/libdvbpsi-0.1.6', Log file:
30 > * '/var/tmp/portage/media-libs/libdvbpsi-0.1.6/temp/build.log'
31 >
32 >>>> Failed to emerge media-libs/libdvbpsi-0.1.6, Log file:
33 >
34 >>>> '/var/tmp/portage/media-libs/libdvbpsi-0.1.6/temp/build.log'
35 >
36 >
37 > And in the build.log:
38 >>>> Downloading
39 >>>> 'http://mirror.ovh.net/gentoo-distfiles/distfiles/libdvbpsi5-0.1.6.tar.bz2'
40 >>>> Downloading
41 >>>> 'http://download.videolan.org/pub/libdvbpsi/0.1.6/libdvbpsi5-0.1.6.tar.bz2'
42 > !!! Couldn't download 'libdvbpsi5-0.1.6.tar.bz2'. Aborting.
43 >
44 >
45 > Download work great when I type directly:
46 >
47 > puf http://download.videolan.org/pub/libdvbpsi/0.1.6/libdvbpsi5-0.1.6.tar.bz2'
48 >
49 > Any help please ?
50 > 2009/12/19 Marcus Wanner <marcusw@×××.net>
51 >>
52 >> On 12/18/2009 1:38 PM, Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
53 >>>
54 >>> On 12/18/2009 05:40 PM, Ronan Mainbourg wrote:
55 >>>>
56 >>>> Because my Internet connection is not very fast, I'd like to make
57 >>>> portage fetch files using net-misc/puf (wich can dl several chunks of a
58 >>>> file at the same time) instead of wget.
59 >>>
60 >>> You got it backwards.  Downloading more than one chunk at the same time
61 >>> is only useful on *fast* connections, not *slow* ones.
62 >>
63 >> I hate to say it but he is correct...puf won't do you any good unless the
64 >> speed at which to file is being downloaded is less than the maximum speed
65 >> for your net connection :(
66 >>
67 >> Marcus
68 >>
69 >
70 >
71 >
72 > --
73 > Ronan Mainbourg
74 > ronan.mainbourg@×××××.com
75 >
76 >
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78
79
80 --
81 Best Regards,
82 David Shen
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