Add config option to specify amount of parallel download streams

It includes pacman.conf new 'ParallelDownloads' option that
specifies how many concurrent downloads cURL starts in parallel.

Add alpm_option_set_parallel_downloads() ALPM function that
allows to set this config option programmatically.

Signed-off-by: Anatol Pomozov <anatol.pomozov@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Allan McRae <allan@archlinux.org>

1 files changed, 5 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/doc/pacman.conf.5.asciidoc b/doc/pacman.conf.5.asciidoc
index 5e4602a0..3c2f1fea 100644
--- a/doc/pacman.conf.5.asciidoc
+++ b/doc/pacman.conf.5.asciidoc
@@ -209,6 +209,11 @@ Options
 	Disable defaults for low speed limit and timeout on downloads. Use this
 	if you have issues downloading files with proxy and/or security gateway.
 
+*ParallelDownloads*::
+	Specifies number of concurrent download streams. The value needs to be a
+	positive integer. If this config option is not set then only one download
+	stream is used (i.e. downloads happen sequentially).
+
 
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