On Fri, Aug 06, 2004 at 08:19:24PM +1200, Bevan Weiss wrote: > Sorry if this has been done before on this mailing list, but... > > Could I recommend including a download restarting method (like wget) so that > if a download exceeds the maximum number of retries then it is just put > aside to be downloaded at another time and the next download is processed. > At the moment I'm getting all kinds of error messages showing up when the > retries expire. It then drops back to the command so no updating is done. These are two separate issues. The first that you mention is yum continuing after a file has failed to download. This is not going to happen, at least without some serious modification of package policies. Lets pick an extreme case where you do a yum update and need a new XFree86, which depends on glibc. Your glibc download fails. yum should not proceed to install XFree86. > It's annoying that the download has to start from the beginning again. With > the bigger files (such as kernel-source) I doubt it will ever successfully > download in the (default?) number of retries. The second issue is reget support, which is in yum-HEAD already. It will be here RSN :) -Michael -- Michael D. Stenner mstenner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx ECE Department, the University of Arizona 520-626-1619 1230 E. Speedway Blvd., Tucson, AZ 85721-0104 ECE 524G
