[Yum] Download restarting

[Michael Stenner]

On Fri, Aug 06, 2004 at 08:19:24PM +1200, Bevan Weiss wrote:
> Sorry if this has been done before on this mailing list, but...
> 
> Could I recommend including a download restarting method (like wget) so that
> if a download exceeds the maximum number of retries then it is just put
> aside to be downloaded at another time and the next download is processed.
> At the moment I'm getting all kinds of error messages showing up when the
> retries expire.  It then drops back to the command so no updating is done.

These are two separate issues.  The first that you mention is yum
continuing after a file has failed to download.  This is not going to
happen, at least without some serious modification of package
policies.  Lets pick an extreme case where you do a yum update and
need a new XFree86, which depends on glibc.  Your glibc download
fails.  yum should not proceed to install XFree86.

> It's annoying that the download has to start from the beginning again.  With
> the bigger files (such as kernel-source) I doubt it will ever successfully
> download in the (default?) number of retries.

The second issue is reget support, which is in yum-HEAD already.  It
will be here RSN :)

					-Michael

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