2007/2/5, Vladimir Koshelenko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> В сообщении от 2 февраля 2007 Richard Maxwell Underwood написал(a):
>
> > How likely is it that sending ^C to a pacman -S will if done often enough
> > mess up some database or file critical to pacman?
>
> Always do 'pacman -Sw' - it only downloads packages into cache. If you
> interrupt, you always can continue later. After this, you can do 'pacman -S'
> and install packages from cache.

That's not necessary. I often interrupt pacman -Su during download
process and on next -Su it continues downloading.

> If you kill pacman after download, in process of installation - consequences
> may be any. For example, if 'pacman -Su' decided to replace 'j2re'
> with 'jre', deleted 'j2re' and you kill it, it will not install 'jre'
> automatically after second 'pacman -Su'. Another example - it can leave you
> files corrupted, and if you extremelly unlusky, you hang up and cannot boot
> after reset.

Yes, that's true. The only solution for this is to not interrupt it
after downloading ended, why would anyone need that?

-- 
Roman Kyrylych (Роман Кирилич)
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