[Yum] Download restarting

[Paul Dickson]

On Fri, 6 Aug 2004 09:38:30 -0700, Michael Stenner wrote:

> 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.

I agree that the install shouldn't proceed, but yum could still proceed in
download-only mode.

	-Paul