Sounds like a good idea. I was just trying to be nice by using what YDL has released, in the hope that that would be the appropriate product (sigh). Ok - Seth - which source rpm generates the stable 2.0.4 rpm? (yum-2.0.4-20040103.src.rpm ?) Regards, Karsten On Jan 28, 2004, at 09:47, seth vidal wrote: > 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 > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Yum mailing list > Yum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > https://lists.dulug.duke.edu/mailman/listinfo/yum >
