[Yum] Wish List

[Karsten Jeppesen]

On Feb 20, 2004, at 00:23, 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.

I am not trying to be rude, but what is wrong with crtl-C ?
Of cause you will have to use the latest yum for it to work nicely.
Yum-1 couldn't delete half-baked files.

The alternative is not much better. Imagine this:
You have the first 256 bytes out of 50MB of a file.
Now yum should download the remaining 50MB (-256bytes) to find out that 
these 256 bytes were corrupted.

Personally I let yum download until it starts on a new file. Then break 
it. Yum continues later by deleting this stub and reloading the file.

I don't mind the time. Stability is a priority way higher than speed. 
Better not update than update wrongly.

Do I make sense?

And Seth - you never answered me on the -n switch. I would still like a 
-n (for no) or the like to ease gui development.

Dr. Karsten Jeppesen
VP of Technology
Total Impact
1221 Avenida Acaso, Suite K
Camarillo, CA, 93012, USA
Tel: 805.987.8704
Fax: 805.484.9469
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