On Feb 20, 2004, at 00:23, Jon Lindberg wrote: > First off I'd like to express my thanks to the developers. Yum is, > well... Yummy! Attaboy's all around. Now for my wish. I wish that yum > had the ability to pause/resume a download. I live out in the sticks > and am stuck on a dialup connection, and would love to be able to > pause a download, > or resume one after an abrupt disconnect. I am not trying to be rude, but what is wrong with crtl-C ? Of cause you will have to use the latest yum for it to work nicely. Yum-1 couldn't delete half-baked files. The alternative is not much better. Imagine this: You have the first 256 bytes out of 50MB of a file. Now yum should download the remaining 50MB (-256bytes) to find out that these 256 bytes were corrupted. Personally I let yum download until it starts on a new file. Then break it. Yum continues later by deleting this stub and reloading the file. I don't mind the time. Stability is a priority way higher than speed. Better not update than update wrongly. Do I make sense? And Seth - you never answered me on the -n switch. I would still like a -n (for no) or the like to ease gui development. Dr. Karsten Jeppesen VP of Technology Total Impact 1221 Avenida Acaso, Suite K Camarillo, CA, 93012, USA Tel: 805.987.8704 Fax: 805.484.9469 -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: Karsten Jeppesen.vcf Type: text/directory Size: 435 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://lists.dulug.duke.edu/pipermail/yum/attachments/20040220/9d20d49b/KarstenJeppesen.bin -------------- next part -------------- If you want to receive emails about updates to www.tornado.totalimpact.com, the technical site, then send me an email about it.
