On Tue, 2004-07-27 at 12:18 -0700, Paul Dickson wrote: > The attached patch is against 2.0.7 that's from Freshrpms.net. It adds > the command-line options --use-wget or --wget which causes downloading to > be done with wget. > > Positives: > > * Wget will do retries and continuing > * Fast (much faster than other downlading methods) > > Negatives: > > * Won't delete damaged RPMs (you'll have to rerun yum without the > --wget option or delete the RPM by hand) > * Won't attempt alternate repositories > > Comments? > Hi Paul, Thanks for the patch, but I don't think I'm going to merge it. It won't work all that nicely with the new work in yum cvs HEAD code and I'm not too keen on making system calls to do it. -sv
