Othmar Pasteka <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > just something what everyboday should know if he/she doesn'T know > it yet, i was bitten by it and i am pissed :/.
Why not take that anger and turn it constructive energy, like a patch? I'm sure the base-config maintainer would be pleased. FYI, "important" doesn't mean that release will be blocked for this bug. We might want to upgrade the 3 base-config Important bugs to "serious"? > i just got bitten by this bug and it just pisses me off. > downloading 220 megs and all silently deleted because base-config > configures apt so that it gets the .debs from two different > servers, i.e. non-us and the usual stuff. and non-us times out > usually. and DO NOT have a small bandwidth, 512kbit/s isn't just > a dial up user. but all the bandwidth is sucked up with the > downloading the non non-us software. and the other regularly > times out. and when i go to retry then, assuming that it just > gets the 2 failed packages, IT DOWNLOADS THE WHOLE DAMN THIGN > AGAIN! AGAIN 200 MEGS OF .DEBS. that's NOT funny. this simply > sucks and pisses me off. the users should AT LEAST get the choice > to decide whether to delete the downloaded .debs. everything else > is just BRAINDEAD. i have a decently fast internet connection but > for everyone else this would be just a nightmare. AND, maybe not > in the us, but in europe one gets their amount of traffic > accounted, meaning that you have to pay if you go beyond a > certain limit. which is at about 1-2 gig at my isp. so i waste > 1/5th of my amount for this stupid brainless bug. > you should just allow one connection at a time AND ask the user > whether he wants to delete the .debs otherwise the whole retry > point is brainless and just not seriously meant (i just lack the > vocabulary to make the point more clearly). > > i hope you fix that. > thanks > Othmar > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -- ...Adam Di Carlo..<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...<URL:http://www.onshored.com/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
