Solved How to download multiple packages at a time ?

rajagenupula

rajagenupula

with command

Bash: 
pkg install package_name

all required packages are downloading one after another. Is there any we can download multiple packages at a time ?

Thanks
Raja Genupula
 
No, it's mostly serialized. So it'll always download and install packages one after another. I presume at least that's what you're looking for? Having multiple packages downloaded concurrently instead of consecutively?
 
rajagenupula said:
with command

Bash: 
pkg install package_name

all required packages are downloading one after another. Is there any we can download multiple packages at a time ?

Thanks
Raja Genupula
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Do you mean installing multiple packages using a single command? ... like this?
cat pkg-list | xargs pkg install -y
 
I wonder what problem that should solve ... after all, you're downloading from a package repository, IOW, all packages are downloaded from the same host. So it should be unlikely that having multiple connections in parallel would be substantially faster ...
 
What about a script such as:-
Code: 
pkg install apache24  &
pkg install wordpress  &
I've no idea if it would give you anything...
 
You might run into a race condition doing that. What if the second package has a dependency on apache24? The first command would download and install it but that might still be running when the second pkg-install(8) starts. It would then see it's missing apache24 and will try to install it too. You can get into some really weird situations.
 
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