[arch-general] archlinux.org/pacman/pacman.conf.5.html from Aug-2019

[Lone_Wolf]

On 07-06-2021 10:46, David C. Rankin via arch-general wrote:
> On 6/6/21 2:56 AM, Ralph Corderoy via arch-general wrote:
>> Hi David,
>>
>>> Why the informative text output from a package manager should use
>>> anything other than basic terminal capabilities seems to fly in the
>>> face of the Arch KISS philosophy.
>> As long as it's querying terminfo(5) to check for the capability and
>> using the escape sequence presented there if it exists then that would
>> seem fine.  If it just blindly writes bytes and assumes the world can
>> understand them...  And Thomas Dickey's xterm(1) is superb in its
>> correctness so that's the main thing to test it with.
>>
> Is there any simple way to turn of the parallel download of the packages files
> that seems to be at the root of this "new technology". I would be quite happy
> to just have the files download sequentially again?
>
> Also, when I update my server at home, this seems aimed ab better saturating
> the bandwidth to speed things up. Only problem is if my kids are playing games
> -- the howls of bad ping times and cries of "Dad what are you doing?" see to
> come without much delay :)
>

Maybe you could test with a console terminal like getty / agetty instead 
of a terminal emulator ?


Try setting ParallelDownloads = 0  in pacman.conf .

LW