On Wed, 2004-01-28 at 12:12, Karsten Jeppesen wrote: > The version distributed by YDL is 1.0.1. Yum doesn't have a --version > flag btw. stop using an ancient version of yum. 1.0.3 should do a lot better on fixing downloads. better still. upgrade rpm to rpm 4.1.1 and use yum 2.0.4 - it's MUCH better. > Yes - if everything worked perfect - we wouldn't need yum either. One > download would be it. > But back to the real world. your sarcasm is valuable. > My question still stands: Why not use wget for download. Parameters > could be set in the yum.conf file. > And then you wouldn't have to maintain that piece. > It is quite annoying that to do a 20 file update it takes more than 3 > hours and 15 restarts. And I am still not done. > I am just running through what I propose exposing our customers to. > Since I have local mirrors, then I can just reset to those, but the guy > in South Africa??? Actually it means a dep on another application and NOT having a python interface to the wget application means invoking it via a system call. So you get almost no useful call backs. Thanks, but no. -sv
