Package Details: pacman2aria2 2012-5

Git Clone URL: https://aur.archlinux.org/pacman2aria2.git (read-only, click to copy)
Package Base: pacman2aria2
Description: Convert pacman download URL lists to reflector-augmented aria2c input lists. Includes powerpill-light.
Upstream URL: https://xyne.dev/projects/pacman2aria2
Keywords: pacman
Licenses: GPL
Submitter: Xyne
Maintainer: Xyne
Last Packager: Xyne
Votes: 55
Popularity: 0.000000
First Submitted: 2011-04-04 03:45 (UTC)
Last Updated: 2022-07-15 22:45 (UTC)

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souravdas142 commented on 2025-12-17 18:25 (UTC)

Hi @Xyne,

Is there any plan to bring powerpill back to AUR?

Even with pacman’s ParallelDownloads, pacman still invokes the downloader per package URL, so it lacks transaction-level visibility. In contrast, powerpill collects all package URLs upfront and hands them to a single aria2 session, enabling true cross-package scheduling, prioritization, and multi-connection downloads.

Because of this architectural difference, pacman + XferCommand + aria2 cannot fully replace powerpill, especially for large, throttled binary packages (e.g. browsers), where pacman still underutilizes available bandwidth.

Just wanted to share this perspective and ask if a revival (or successor) is being considered.

Thanks for maintaining powerpill.

Xyne commented on 2012-12-10 14:48 (UTC)

In case anyone missed it, Powerpill has been re-released: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=65059

mertemba commented on 2012-10-24 20:37 (UTC)

Everything is working again, thanks!

mertemba commented on 2012-10-24 11:47 (UTC)

Downloading the signature of the xz package does not work anymore, therefore an update or fresh installation of this package does not work as well. Maybe you could reupload the signature or adjust the PKGBUILD? Thanks!

Xyne commented on 2012-09-03 22:15 (UTC)

I'm glad that it fixed itself. Sorry for not replying sooner. I saw the notification email and opened a tab to reply, but I must have been sidetracked before I could. Btw, if you're still using this then I recommend taking a look at the following: http://xyne.archlinux.ca/projects/pm2ml/ http://xyne.archlinux.ca/scripts/pacman/#parisync I have been using parisync on all of my systems since I wrote it.

<deleted-account> commented on 2012-09-03 12:12 (UTC)

Never mind. Reinstalling it took care of the problem.

<deleted-account> commented on 2012-09-03 05:15 (UTC)

Hi, i got this error while trying to install a package [dilip@Zeus Desktop]$ sudo powerpill-light pwmanager Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/lib/python3.2/urllib/request.py", line 1135, in do_open h.request(req.get_method(), req.selector, req.data, headers) File "/usr/lib/python3.2/http/client.py", line 967, in request self._send_request(method, url, body, headers) File "/usr/lib/python3.2/http/client.py", line 1005, in _send_request self.endheaders(body) File "/usr/lib/python3.2/http/client.py", line 963, in endheaders self._send_output(message_body) File "/usr/lib/python3.2/http/client.py", line 808, in _send_output self.send(msg) File "/usr/lib/python3.2/http/client.py", line 746, in send self.connect() File "/usr/lib/python3.2/http/client.py", line 1100, in connect self.timeout, self.source_address) File "/usr/lib/python3.2/socket.py", line 404, in create_connection raise err File "/usr/lib/python3.2/socket.py", line 395, in create_connection sock.connect(sa) socket.timeout: timed out During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred: Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/lib/python3.2/site-packages/Reflector.py", line 145, in retrieve with urllib.request.urlopen(MirrorStatus.URL, None, self.connection_timeout) as f: File "/usr/lib/python3.2/urllib/request.py", line 138, in urlopen return opener.open(url, data, timeout) File "/usr/lib/python3.2/urllib/request.py", line 369, in open response = self._open(req, data) File "/usr/lib/python3.2/urllib/request.py", line 387, in _open '_open', req) File "/usr/lib/python3.2/urllib/request.py", line 347, in _call_chain result = func(*args) File "/usr/lib/python3.2/urllib/request.py", line 1171, in https_open context=self._context, check_hostname=self._check_hostname) File "/usr/lib/python3.2/urllib/request.py", line 1138, in do_open raise URLError(err) urllib.error.URLError: <urlopen error timed out> During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred: Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/bin/pacman2aria2", line 72, in <module> ms, mirrors = process_options(options) File "/usr/lib/python3.2/site-packages/Reflector.py", line 481, in process_options mirrors = ms.get_mirrors() File "/usr/lib/python3.2/site-packages/Reflector.py", line 191, in get_mirrors return self.get_obj()['urls'] File "/usr/lib/python3.2/site-packages/Reflector.py", line 184, in get_obj self.retrieve() File "/usr/lib/python3.2/site-packages/Reflector.py", line 150, in retrieve raise MirrorStatusError('failed to retrieve mirror data: %s' % (e)) Reflector.MirrorStatusError: 'failed to retrieve mirror data: <urlopen error timed out>' No files to download. resolving dependencies... looking for inter-conflicts... Targets (3): kdelibs3-3.5.10-13 qt3-1:3.3.8b-1 pwmanager-1.2.4-5 Total Download Size: 21.78 MiB Total Installed Size: 90.98 MiB Proceed with installation? [Y/n] n [dilip@Zeus Desktop]$

Xyne commented on 2012-03-20 18:15 (UTC)

Anyone using pacman2aria2 will probably be interested in pm2ml: http://xyne.archlinux.ca/projects/pm2ml/ https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=138020

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