[Yum] Manual Download for Yum

seth vidal skvidal at phy.duke.edu
Sun Nov 28 16:41:38 UTC 2004


> gftp freezes too - but it restarts the download automatically at the
> same spot it left off after a short delay.  I don't have to restart from
> scratch each time.

gftp has a reget function, okay.


> Yum now does huge updates flawlessly !  This is good.  It also suggests
> some sort of Yum issue handling some sort of socket error / lost packet
> / timeout situation on flakey networks rather than a specific problem
> with my machines or setup ?

no, it means that yum doesn't have reget support and your connection was
flaky. It's like anything else. Flaky connections make getting data
difficult.

-sv





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