[Kget] [Bug 158816] Use chunk checksums in Metalinks to repair downloads

[Ant Bryan]

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------- Additional Comments From anthonybryan gmail com  2008-03-05 22:17 -------
yes, it would definitely be great for multisource downloads!

enough distributions use Metalink for ISO downloads, and errors in a 600MB to 3 GB file can be extremely frustrating. errors can be repaired w/ aria2 & metalinks (or by torrents, rsync) but we want things to be as easy for the user as possible.

for instance, he's an openSUSE page on Metalinks: http://en.opensuse.org/Metalink

most of the page covers how to repair a download, doing things that many users would rather not do. the information to repair the file is already in the .metalink, so hopefully more Metalink clients will make things easier on the user :)

I think if KGet supported repairing downloads w/ Metalinks, it would be the preferred download method for ISOs, instead of plain FTP/HTTP, for distributions. I mean, who wouldn't want simpler, error proof downloads?