On Tue, 2004-01-27 at 19:16, Karsten Jeppesen wrote: > It appears to me as if yum from time to time fails to download packages. > You will then have to restart yum and delete the last file fragment. > > Why not use wget for the download part? what version are you seeing this failure on? Yum has a settable 'retries' option for the number of times to retry a failed or partial connection. It only exits after the retries count is exhausted. That number defaults to 6. Most of the time download failures are the fault of an overloaded mirror or a bad connection. -sv
