On Thu, 2003-10-23 at 17:37, Jeremy Katz wrote: > On Thu, 2003-10-23 at 13:02, seth vidal wrote: > > Quite impossible w/o leaving your rpmdb in a completely un-reliable > > state during that time. > > Your rpmdb is going to be in a completely unreliable state if something > happens mid-way through the package install anyway. Having the packages > downloaded in advance doesn't really help with that problem. > but he said have updates for foo bar and baz download foo install foo download bar install bar download baz install baz that didn't, to me, seem to be in the same transaction, but each as an independent transaction. and if the files have been downloaded it decreases the number of things that could cause the failure ie: the network. -sv
