[Yum] Wish List

[Michael Stenner]

On Fri, Feb 20, 2004 at 03:23:23AM -0500, Jon Lindberg wrote:
> First off I'd like to express my thanks to the developers. Yum is, 
> well... Yummy! Attaboy's all around. Now for my wish. I wish that yum 
> had the ability to pause/resume a download. I live out in the sticks and 
> am stuck on a dialup connection, and would love to be able to pause a 
> download,
> or resume one after an abrupt disconnect.

In the reverse order:

  2) Resuming downloads is a definite goal.  It's in the works.
  1) Pausing downloads (deliberately) needs to things
     a) the ability to resume downloads, and
     b) an interface for interrupting them

Since (a) == (2), that's no problem.  However, I can seen (b) being
hellish?  Other than ctrl-c, what would be a good way to do that?  I
dunno.  Honestly, I suspect that you'll have to some day live with
ctrl-c to just plain stop yum, and then have it intelligently pick up
where it left off before.

					-Michael
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