Go back through the archives. Look for a message header : [Yum] Adding Wget to Yum for Package Downloads Paul Dickson created a patch which he generously provided to the list. 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. However, be warned that Seth replied thusly : >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. S. -----Original Message----- From: yum-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:yum-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Sam Tygier Sent: Tuesday, August 31, 2004 7:53 PM To: yum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [Yum] conutinuing a download when connection fails Is it possible to make yum continue a download if connection fails, or to carry on from where it got to when it is restarted. like using wget -c. this would be really useful as i am using a dial up connection that has a 2 hour limit (approx 20mb max). thanks sa, _______________________________________________ Yum mailing list Yum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.dulug.duke.edu/mailman/listinfo/yum
