On 04/15/2009 08:45 PM, Robert L Cochran wrote:
On 04/15/2009 06:56 PM, Kevin Kofler wrote:
Robert L Cochran wrote:
I didn't realize this was such an issue with people. It seems sort of
like bicycle buying to me. Some people want performance bikes, some
want
road bikes. Some want expensive ones and others want cheap models.
Maybe
I'll try downloading the yum source and see if I can reinstate the
download-by-package size option. I can live with the download
alphabetically option, but I really did like getting most of the
packages downloaded within a few minutes at most with the larger stuff
coming last. I always check what Yum wants to download first before I
answer 'y' to continuing, so I know perfectly well what packages are
coming in.
I consider this "smallest first" behavior to be horribly deceptive and
misleading (it makes you believe you're much farther into the
download than
you actually are) and I'm glad it got changed to something more logical.
Kevin Kofler
The former way worked fine. There was no deception: recall that when a
package is being downloaded, there are two percentage figures shown on
the console output line. The first shows how complete the total
download is. The second shows how complete the download for that
particular package is. You could see reasonably accurate numbers right
there. Many other software update utilities such as Microsoft Update
don't show that much detail. And the way yum ordered downloads caused
no one any problems. It is all a matter of perception, I guess!
Bob
I keep forgetting to explain my own habits here. When I start yum, I
always do it in a terminal so I can look over the packages and get a
rough idea of whether I can go enjoy a coffee. Others like to use some
form of graphical updater and I suppose they don't display the detailed
download information that the console output does.
Bob
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