Can develop installation, update package of resuming load function?

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In China, I use the haiku r1beta1 64 version,when using Pkgman Update or Pkgman full-sync update the system,speed is very slow(<1KB), and even drops, Cannot update the system normally or installing new software,can develop installation, update package of resuming load function?

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Initially, the speed can reach 50 KB to 100 KB, but after a few minutes, speed will be reduced to a few KB, even<1KB

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I can tell you that this is typical of China.
When I am back in Europe, there is no problem, it is very fast.
I also noticed that company internet access usually face less bandwidth issues than home access.

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Anyone in China who could provide a mirror of the package repos maybe?

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Now, did not find the right image,so I think that is similar to resuming a similar function, can more convenient to solve the problem.

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Check the mirrors file, the NZ mirror may work better: https://eu.hpkg.haiku-os.org/haikuports/master/repository/x86_64/current/mirrors.txt

Though I don’t think we mirror the main Haiku repositories themselves, only HaikuPorts…

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I second this suggestion. Having pkgman first download hpkg’s to a temporary folder/cache then install the locally downloaded/cached packages would provide much more of a fail-safe method than what what is currently done.
It would also avoid having to re-download the packages if you uninstall and reinstall something or want to downgrade to a version that is no longer hosted.

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This is already done. Packages get downloaded to /system/packages/administrative/transaction/ and and are then moved to /system/packages/.

The ticket for resuming/retring downloads is #12414 ([package kit] Package downloads not retried / resumeable) – Haiku

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I’ve been testing the mirrors, the speed more slower than HaikuPorts

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Yes,the pkgman get downloaded to /system/packages/administrative/transaction/ and and are then moved to /system/packages/,

But when in the process of installing packages is abort, when again reinstalling the same packages, the pkgman will restart download the packages who have downloaded to /system/packages/administrative/transaction/.

Can develop a mechanism, when in the process of installing packages is abort, don’t download again already packages who have downloaded to /system/packages/administrative/transaction/ , not only download failed to download the packages?

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That’s exactly what the ticket I linked to is about.

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Good,thinks,hope to faster to solve.

In addition, could you consider give pkgman set cURL in the back-end,
So, when using pkgman download software packages,Connection will be more stable and fast.