Re: python 2.4

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On Wed, Dec 01, 2004 at 08:23:51AM -0500, Brian Long wrote:
> To make Linux more user-friendly, it shouldn't retry forever.  :)  It
> should keep a retry count per RPM and if the user retries 3 times, it
> pops up a dialog saying the installation has failed and they should
> restart.

I kinda want it to retry forever on a network install.

> Or even better, it could offer the option to skip the RPM.  Depending on
> the groups selected for installation, a corrupt -devel RPM not getting
> installed is not a big deal.  In fact, any RPM not "mandatory" in
> comps.xml could be skipped (I imagine).  The rest of the install would
> proceed as normal and maybe populate a file that firstboot could read
> and try to install the corrupt RPMs once networking is enabled.  Just an
> idea.

The whole RPM transaction set would need to be recomputed....

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