[Yum] Manual Download for Yum

[Tony]

On Sun, 2004-11-14 at 11:09, seth vidal wrote:
> On Sun, 2004-11-14 at 10:09 -0600, Tony Hill wrote:
> > Some of us have had the same problem with Yum freezing up - we've
> > covered that in another thread on this list.
> > 
> > Taking your suggestion last night,  I ran Yum to get a list of the
> > recent updates and when (as usual) it froze while downloading a large
> > file (Open Office updates are always a killer), I did a CTRL-C and then
> > I used my gFTP client to download the rest of the files.
> 
> 
> so yum froze but going from the same ftp sites gftp did not?
> 
> -sv
> 
Seth :

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.

A (final) follow-up to this thread. After an unbelievable amount of
work,  I finally convinced my local Telco to put me on DSL.  So I'm no
longer connected to the internet via DirecPC one-way satellite service.
That's the only difference - the gateway on my LAN goes somewhere new
and there have been no changes at all to my Linux boxes.  

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 ?

Tony