[Yum] Too many download restarts

seth vidal skvidal at phy.duke.edu
Fri Jan 28 02:08:22 UTC 2005


On Thu, 2005-01-27 at 18:29 -0600, Felipe Contreras wrote:
> Hi everybody,
> 
> I'm having a lot of trouble because yum restarts the downloads too
> many times. It's not nice when I'm behind a 56k connection and I have
> to wait several minutes to download a certain file and it just
> restarts. Sometimes it happens when there are less than 10kb left, and
> it can happen even more than 10 times for the same file.
> 
> I've never seen a download restart from any mirror when I download
> them manually, so I think it's a yum issue. Besides, even if the
> connection was lost I think the download should start where it left.
> 
> Ii tried running with -d 10 and -e 10 but nothing is displayed when
> the restart occurs.
> 
> It seems I'm not the only one having this issue (downloads restarted),
> it's just that most people are behind a faster connection so they
> don't care that much.
> 

yum 2.1.13 included reget support - so it will start where it left off,
or at least it should.

let me know if it doesn't.

-sv





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