On Sun, Aug 08, 2004 at 06:24:00PM -0700, Paul Dickson wrote: > > 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. That would not be crazy. Both behaviors would be what the user wanted SOME of the time. -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
