On Wed, Sep 01, 2004 at 11:03:42AM -0400, Lawrence, Steve wrote: > 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. While you're flipping through the archives, you should look at the many posts I've made saying that this feature is already present in the development version, which is quickly nearing release. -Michael > 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 > > _______________________________________________ > Yum mailing list > Yum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > https://lists.dulug.duke.edu/mailman/listinfo/yum > -- Michael D. Stenner mstenner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx ECE Department, the University of Arizona 520-626-1619 1230 E. Speedway Blvd., Tucson, AZ 85721-0104 ECE 524G
