On 19-09-2015 10:53, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > On Sat, 19 Sep 2015 17:28:58 +0800, Anatol Pomozov wrote: >> Hi >> >> On Sat, Sep 19, 2015 at 5:24 PM, Ralf Mardorf >> <ralf.mardorf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> >>> >>> However, installing just a few packages instead of all packages needs >>> to be done, if the Internet connection get interrupted too often to >>> make a complete upgrade in one step. So a note by the Arch news IMO >>> still is useful. >>> >> >> Pacman downloads all packages before installing any of them. So if you >> have a bad Internet connection then you'll be stuck at the first >> (download) step. It will not leave your system in broken state. > > Yes, that's true, but I don't know when my ISP will fix the issue. Last > time they needed several month to fix it, so I needed to update by > installing just a few packages. It's also correct that this time I > could install bash, readline, ncurses and few other packages in one > step and the other > 100 packages one after the other. Anyway, one > still needs to be aware about a chicken-and-egg problem. Interrupted > Internet connections are not that seldom nowadays in Germany, > https://allestörungen.de/, e.g. my provider: > https://allestörungen.de/stoerung/o2 > It might be not that much of an issue in other countries. > You can always do 'pacman -Syuw' until you manage to download all the packages. -- Mauro Santos
