On 10 Apr 2003, Heiko Jones wrote:Please note this is just as much a problem for PAYING customers.
Is anybody else having up2date nightmares over a 56k modem?
Anytime during an up2date session, if the modem link gets at all busy I get SSL communication errors, which lead to a misleading dialog box with the text "The package xxxxxxx does not have a valid GPG signature. It has been tampered with or corrupted. Continue?" See bugzilla 86527, it lays out the problem very well. To add insult to injury, if you reconnect it starts redownloading the rpm from the beginning! I can make this happen anytime, I cant even check my mail without losing my up2date download!
Also see this bug. Note the request for wget-like functionality which allows resumption of interrupted downloads. As it stands 56k modem users really have a problem for the larger updates. I guess the problem is that it's a FREE service that Red Hat is graciously providing to us and they have limited bandwidth that costs money. Still, I keep on using it and wget-like resumption would actually _save_ bandwidth.
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=85808
Further, downloading using Windows GetRight seems to have no problem and does often resume several times to get a kernel update downloaded. I think this means the servers (at least the FTP servers) can resume. I seems to be the up2date servers and/or client thar are missing the ability to resume.
R.Parr, RHCE Temporal Arts
