On Fri, 6 Aug 2004 09:38:30 -0700, Michael Stenner wrote: > 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. I agree that the install shouldn't proceed, but yum could still proceed in download-only mode. -Paul
